Ian Cheney
Directing
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.
Ian Cheney movies and shows
The Work in Progress2026
Picture a Scientist2020
The Last Class2025
The Arc of Oblivion2023
King Corn2007
Truck Farm2011
The Greenhorns2010
The Most Unknown2018
The City Dark2012
The Long Coast2020
Observer2026
The Emoji Story2019
Shelf Life2024
Fight Like Hell: The Testimony of Mother Jones2023
World Fair2013
The Melungeons2013
The Search for General Tso2014
Bluespace2015