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.
| Film | Credit |
|---|---|
 Observer2025 · Director, Writer | Director, Writer |
 Shelf Life2024 · Director | Director |
 Fight Like Hell: The Testimony of Mother Jones2023 · Director | Director |
 The Arc of Oblivion2023 · Writer, Director | Writer, Director |
 Picture a Scientist2020 · Producer, Director | Producer, Director |
 The Long Coast2020 · Director | Director |
 The Emoji Story2020 · Director, Producer, Director of Photography | Director, Producer, Director of Photography |
 The Most Unknown2018 · Director | Director |
| TThe Smog of the Sea2017 · Writer, Director | Writer, Director |
 Bluespace2015 · Director | Director |
 The Search for General Tso2014 · self, Director | self, Director |
 The Melungeons2013 · Director | Director |
 The City Dark2012 · Actor, Director, Producer, Writer, Director of Photography | Actor, Director, Producer, Writer, Director of Photography |
 Truck Farm2011 · Director | Director |
| BBig River2010 · Actor | Actor |
| TThe Greening of Southie2008 · Director | Director |
 King Corn2007 · Himself, Writer, Producer | Himself, Writer, Producer |