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.
Acting
Crew
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The Search for General Tso
Director
2014
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The Most Unknown
Director
2018
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King Corn
Writer
2007
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The City Dark
Director
2012
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Picture a Scientist
Producer
2020
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Truck Farm
Director
2011
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The Arc of Oblivion
Writer
2023
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The Emoji Story
Producer
2020
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The Long Coast
Director
2020
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The Smog of the Sea
Editor
2017
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The Melungeons
Director
2013
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Fight Like Hell: The Testimony of Mother Jones
Director
2023