Ian Cheney

Personal Info

Known For Director

Gender Male

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

Director

The Melungeons

as Director

2024
Shelf Life

as Director

2023
2020
The Long Coast

as Director

2020
The Emoji Story

as Director

2020
2018
The Most Unknown

as Director

2017
2015
Bluespace

as Director

2012
The City Dark

as Director

2011
Truck Farm

as Director

Producer

2020
2020
The Emoji Story

as Producer

2013
World Fair

as Co-Producer

2007
King Corn

as Producer

Writer

2023
2017
2007
King Corn

as Writer

Editor

2017
2010
The Greenhorns

as Editor

Crew

2017
The Smog of the Sea

as Cinematography

2013
World Fair

as Cinematography

Actor

2007
King Corn

as Himself

Camera

2020
The Emoji Story

as Director of Photography