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Ian Cheney

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.

On screen

  • The Search for General Tso
  • The City Dark
  • King Corn

Behind the camera

  • Observer
  • Shelf Life
  • The Arc of Oblivion
  • Fight Like Hell: The Testimony of Mother Jones
  • The Long Coast
  • The Emoji Story
  • Picture a Scientist
  • The Most Unknown
  • Bluespace
  • The Search for General Tso
  • The Melungeons
  • The City Dark
  • Truck Farm
  • King Corn

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