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.
Behind the camera
2025Observer
Director & Writer
2024Shelf Life
Director
2023The Arc of Oblivion
Director & Writer
2023Fight Like Hell: The Testimony of Mother Jones
Director
2020The Long Coast
Director
2020The Emoji Story
Director
2020Picture a Scientist
Director
2018The Most Unknown
Director
2015Bluespace
Director
2014The Search for General Tso
Director
2013The Melungeons
Director
2012The City Dark
Director & Writer
2011Truck Farm
Director
2007King Corn
Writer