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.
Directed (15)
Observer
2025
Shelf Life
2024
Fight Like Hell: The Testimony of Mother Jones
2023
The Arc of Oblivion
2023
Picture a Scientist
2020
The Long Coast
2020
The Emoji Story
2020
The Most Unknown
2018
The Smog of the Sea
2017
Bluespace
2015
The Search for General Tso
2014
The Melungeons
2013
The City Dark
2012
Truck Farm
2011
The Greening of Southie
2008
