
Ian Cheney
Personal Info
Known for
Directing
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
Crew
(2025)
Observer
Director, Writer
(2025)
The Last Class
Executive Producer
(2024)
Shelf Life
Director
(2023)
The Arc of Oblivion
Writer, Director
(2023)
(2020)
The Long Coast
Director
(2020)
Picture a Scientist
Producer, Director
(2020)
The Emoji Story
Director, Producer, Director of Photography
(2018)
The Most Unknown
Director
(2017)
The Smog of the Sea
Writer, Cinematography, Director, Editor
(2015)
Bluespace
Director
(2014)
The Search for General Tso
Director
(2013)
The Melungeons
Director
(2013)
World Fair
Cinematography, Co-Producer
(2012)
The City Dark
Director
(2011)
Truck Farm
Director
(2010)
The Greenhorns
Editor
(2008)
The Greening of Southie
Director
(2007)
King Corn
Writer, Producer