Ian Cheney
Appears in 20 titles

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.

Filmography

The Search for General Tso
6.5
The Search for General Tso
2014
Director
The Most Unknown
6.5
The Most Unknown
2018
Director
The City Dark
7.5
The City Dark
2012
Director
Picture a Scientist
8.1
Picture a Scientist
2020
Director
Truck Farm
8.0
Truck Farm
2011
Director
The Arc of Oblivion
2.0
The Arc of Oblivion
2023
Director
The Emoji Story
9.0
The Emoji Story
2020
Director
The Long Coast
The Long Coast
2020
Director
The Smog of the Sea
2017
Director
The Melungeons
The Melungeons
2013
Director
Shelf Life
Shelf Life
2024
Director
Bluespace
Bluespace
2015
Director
The Greening of Southie
2008
Director
Observer
Observer
2025
Director