Person
Ian Cheney
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.
Known for
Picture a Scientist
Producer
The Emoji Story
Director
The Last Class
Executive Producer
The Most Unknown
Director
King Corn
Himself
Observer
Director
Big River
2010
World Fair
Co-Producer
Fight Like Hell: The Testimony of Mother Jones
Director
The City Dark
2012
Filmography
- 2025The Last ClassExecutive Producer
- 2025ObserverDirector
- 2024Shelf LifeDirector
- 2023Fight Like Hell: The Testimony of Mother JonesDirector
- 2023The Arc of OblivionWriter
- 2020Picture a ScientistProducer
- 2020The Long CoastDirector
- 2020The Emoji StoryDirector
- 2018The Most UnknownDirector
- 2017The Smog of the SeaCinematography
- 2015BluespaceDirector
- 2014The Search for General Tsoself
- 2013The MelungeonsDirector
- 2013World FairCo-Producer
- 2012The City Dark
- 2011Truck FarmDirector
- 2010The GreenhornsEditor
- 2010Big River
- 2008The Greening of SouthieDirector
- 2007King CornHimself
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