Ian Cheney

Known for 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.Read more

Movies & web series

The Emoji Story

Picture a Scientist

Truck Farm

The City Dark

The Most Unknown

The Search for General Tso

King Corn

Big River

The Arc of Oblivion

Observer

The Last Class

Shelf Life

Fight Like Hell: The Testimony of Mother Jones

The Long Coast

The Smog of the Sea

Bluespace

The Melungeons

World Fair

The Greenhorns

The Greening of Southie