Directing
Ian Cheney
EN cinema · 21 credits
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
Filmography
Observer
Director, Writer
The Last Class
Executive Producer
Shelf Life
Director
The Arc of Oblivion
Writer, Director
The Long Coast
Director
Picture a Scientist
Producer, Director
The Emoji Story
Director, Producer, Director of Photography
The Most Unknown
Director
The Smog of the Sea
2017
The Smog of the Sea
Cinematography, Writer, Editor, Director
Bluespace
Director
The Search for General Tso
as self, Director
The Melungeons
Director
World Fair
Co-Producer, Cinematography
The City Dark
Actor, Director, Producer, Editor, Writer, Director of Photography
Truck Farm
Director
King Corn
as Himself, Writer, Producer