
Directing
Ian Cheney
38 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
Directing 16
- 2026The Work in ProgressFilmDirector
- 2025ObserverFilmDirector
- 2024Shelf LifeFilmDirector
- 2023The Arc of OblivionFilmDirector
- 2023Fight Like Hell: The Testimony of Mother JonesFilmDirector
- 2020Picture a ScientistFilmDirector
- 2020The Long CoastFilmDirector
- 2019The Emoji StoryFilmDirector
- 2018The Most UnknownFilmDirector
- 2017The Smog of the SeaFilmDirector
- 2015BluespaceFilmDirector
- 2014The Search for General TsoFilmDirector
- 2013The MelungeonsFilmDirector
- 2012The City DarkFilmDirector
- 2011Truck FarmFilmDirector
- 2008The Greening of SouthieFilmDirector
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