Ian Cheney
Known For: Directing
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
2025
- Observer ... (Director)
- The Last Class ... (Executive Producer)
2024
- Shelf Life ... (Director)
2023
- Fight Like Hell: The Testimony of Mother Jones ... (Director)
- The Arc of Oblivion ... (Writer)
2020
- Picture a Scientist ... (Producer)
- The Emoji Story ... (Director)
- The Long Coast ... (Director)
2018
- The Most Unknown ... (Director)
2017
- The Smog of the Sea ... (Writer)
2015
- Bluespace ... (Director)
2014
- The Search for General Tso as self
2013
- World Fair ... (Cinematography)
- The Melungeons ... (Director)
2012
2011
- Truck Farm ... (Director)
2010
- Big River
- The Greenhorns ... (Editor)
2008
- The Greening of Southie ... (Director)
2007
- King Corn as Himself