
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.
Credits
Newest first
The Work in ProgressDirector2026
The Last ClassExecutive Producer2025
ObserverDirector2025
ObserverWriter2025
Shelf LifeDirector2024
Fight Like Hell: The Testimony of Mother JonesDirector2023
The Arc of OblivionWriter2023
The Arc of OblivionDirector2023
Picture a ScientistProducer2020
Picture a ScientistDirector2020
The Long CoastDirector2020
The Emoji StoryProducer2019
The Emoji StoryDirector2019
The Emoji StoryDirector of Photography2019
The Most UnknownDirector2018- The Smog of the SeaEditor2017
- The Smog of the SeaCinematography2017
- The Smog of the SeaDirector2017
- The Smog of the SeaWriter2017
BluespaceDirector2015
The Search for General Tsoas self2014
The Search for General TsoDirector2014
The MelungeonsDirector2013
World FairCinematography2013
World FairCo-Producer2013
The City Dark2012
The City DarkDirector2012
The City DarkProducer2012
The City DarkEditor2012
The City DarkWriter2012
The City DarkDirector of Photography2012
Truck FarmDirector2011
The GreenhornsEditor2010- Big River2010
- The Greening of SouthieDirector2008
King Cornas Himself2007
King CornWriter2007
King CornProducer2007