
Ian Cheney
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 Emoji Story
2020

Picture a Scientist
2020

Truck Farm
2011

The City Dark
2012

The Most Unknown
2018

The Search for General Tso
2014

King Corn
2007

The Arc of Oblivion
2023

The Last Class
2025

Observer
2025

Shelf Life
2024

Fight Like Hell: The Testimony of Mother Jones
2023

The Long Coast
2020

Bluespace
2015

The Melungeons
2013

World Fair
2013