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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The Long Coast
DirectorPicture a Scientist
Producer, DirectorKing Corn
Writer, ProducerThe City Dark
DirectorThe Search for General Tso
DirectorTruck Farm
DirectorThe Arc of Oblivion
Writer, DirectorThe Melungeons
DirectorFight Like Hell: The Testimony of Mother Jones
DirectorShelf Life
DirectorBluespace
DirectorThe Most Unknown
DirectorThe Emoji Story
Producer, Director, Director of PhotographyWorld Fair
Cinematography, Co-Producer