Ian Cheney

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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.

Credits

Year Title
2025-03-22 Observer
2024-06-07 Shelf Life
2023-04-19 Fight Like Hell: The Testimony of Mother Jones
2023-03-18 The Arc of Oblivion
2020-11-11 Picture a Scientist
2020-10-09 The Long Coast
2020-06-14 The Emoji Story
2018-03-16 The Most Unknown
2017-02-05 The Smog of the Sea
2015-11-16 Bluespace
2014-04-20 The Search for General Tso
2013-12-31 The Melungeons
2012-01-20 The City Dark
2011-01-01 Truck Farm
2008-04-22 The Greening of Southie