Known For
Directing
Credits
21 titles
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.
Known For
Filmography
The Work in Progress
Director
The Last Class
Executive Producer
Observer
Director
Shelf Life
Director
Fight Like Hell: The Testimony of Mother Jones
Director
The Arc of Oblivion
Writer
Picture a Scientist
Producer
The Long Coast
Director
The Emoji Story
Director
The Most Unknown
Director
The Smog of the Sea
Writer
Bluespace
Director
The Search for General Tso
self
The Melungeons
Director
World Fair
Cinematography
The City Dark
Truck Farm
Director
The Greenhorns
Editor
Big River
The Greening of Southie
Director
King Corn
Himself