Ian Cheney

Ian Cheney

Biography

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.

Filmography

King Corn

2007

As Himself

Big River

2010

As

Production

King Corn

2007

As Writer

King Corn

2007

As Producer

The City Dark

2012

As Director

The Smog of the Sea

2017

As Cinematography

The Smog of the Sea

2017

As Writer

The Smog of the Sea

2017

As Editor

The Smog of the Sea

2017

As Director

The Most Unknown

2018

As Director

The Greenhorns

2010

As Editor

The Emoji Story

2020

As Director

The Emoji Story

2020

As Producer

World Fair

2013

As Co-Producer

World Fair

2013

As Cinematography

Picture a Scientist

2020

As Director

The Emoji Story

2020

As Director of Photography

The Long Coast

2020

As Director

Truck Farm

2011

As Director

Picture a Scientist

2020

As Producer

The Arc of Oblivion

2023

As Director

The Melungeons

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As Director

Bluespace

2015

As Director

The Arc of Oblivion

2023

As Writer

Shelf Life

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As Director

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