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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).
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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.
Known for
The Search for General Tso2014
The Most Unknown2018
King Corn2007
Picture a Scientist2020
The City Dark2012
Truck Farm2011
The Arc of Oblivion2023
The Emoji Story2019
Filmography
- 2026ObserverFilmDirector, Writer
- 2026The Work in ProgressFilmDirector
- 2025The Last ClassFilmExecutive Producer
- 2024Shelf LifeFilmDirector
- 2023The Arc of OblivionFilmWriter, Director
- 2023Fight Like Hell: The Testimony of Mother JonesFilmDirector
- 2020Picture a ScientistFilmProducer, Director
- 2020The Long CoastFilmDirector
- 2019The Emoji StoryFilmDirector, Producer, Director of Photography
- 2018The Most UnknownFilmDirector
- 2017The Smog of the SeaFilmCinematography, Writer, Editor, Director
- 2015BluespaceFilmDirector
- 2014The Search for General TsoFilmself, Director
- 2013The MelungeonsFilmDirector
- 2013World FairFilmCo-Producer, Cinematography
- 2012The City DarkFilmDirector, Producer, Editor, Writer, Director of Photography
- 2011Truck FarmFilmDirector
- 2010Big RiverFilm
- 2010The GreenhornsFilmEditor
- 2008The Greening of SouthieFilmDirector
- 2007King CornFilmHimself, Writer, Producer