
Ian Cheney
Ian Cheney is an Emmy-nominated and Peabody Award-winning documentary filmmaker. He has completed ten feature documentaries, including King Corn (2007), The Greening of Southie (2008), The City Dark (2011), The Search for General Tso (2014), Bluespace (2015), The Most Unknown (2018), The Emoji Story (2019), Thirteen Ways (2019), Picture a Scientist (2020) and The Long Coast (2020). His short films include Two Buckets (2006), Truck Farm (2010), The Melungeons (2013), The Smog of the Sea (2016) and The Measure of a Fog (2017). He received bachelor’s & master’s degrees from Yale University, and an MFA in Film from the Vermont College of Fine Arts. A former MacDowell Fellow & Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT, he lives in midcoast Maine. For more information about Ian’s films, visit www.wickedelicate.com.
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13 Credits
Picture a Scientist
Producer, Director
2020

King Corn
Writer, Producer
2007

Shelf Life
Director
2024

The Arc of Oblivion
Writer, Director
2023

The Most Unknown
Director
2018

The City Dark
Director, Producer, Writer
2012

The Melungeons
Director
2013

The Emoji Story
Director, Producer
2020

Bluespace
Director
2015

The Search for General Tso
Director
2014

Truck Farm
Director
2011

The Long Coast
Director
2020