Ian Cheney

Biography:
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.

Ian Cheney's Filmography

King Corn

King Corn

  •   Movie
  • 2007
Himself
The Arc of Oblivion

The Arc of Oblivion

  •   Movie
  • 2023
Director, Writer
Picture a Scientist

Picture a Scientist

  •   Movie
  • 2020
Director, Producer
The Most Unknown

The Most Unknown

  •   Movie
  • 2018
Director
King Corn

King Corn

  •   Movie
  • 2007
Producer, Writer