Ian Cheney

Directing

Ian Cheney

Credits
21 titles

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.

Signature work

Known For

Acting credits 4

YearTitleRole
2014 The Search for General Tso Film self
2012 The City Dark Film
2010 Big River Film
2007 King Corn Film Himself

Crew credits 20

YearTitleJob
2026 The Work in Progress Film Director
2025 The Last Class Film Executive Producer
2025 Observer Film Director, Writer
2024 Shelf Life Film Director
2023 Fight Like Hell: The Testimony of Mother Jones Film Director
2023 The Arc of Oblivion Film Writer, Director
2020 Picture a Scientist Film Producer, Director
2020 The Long Coast Film Director
2019 The Emoji Story Film Director, Producer, Director of Photography
2018 The Most Unknown Film Director
2017 The Smog of the Sea Film Writer, Cinematography, Director, Editor
2015 Bluespace Film Director
2014 The Search for General Tso Film Director
2013 The Melungeons Film Director
2013 World Fair Film Cinematography, Co-Producer
2012 The City Dark Film Director, Producer, Editor, Writer, Director of Photography
2011 Truck Farm Film Director
2010 The Greenhorns Film Editor
2008 The Greening of Southie Film Director
2007 King Corn Film Writer, Producer
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