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.

Directing

Production

2025

The Last Class
Movie

Executive Producer

2013

World Fair
Movie

Co-Producer

2013

World Fair
Movie

Co-Producer

2012

Writing

Acting

Camera

2019

The Emoji Story
Movie

Director of Photography

2012

The City Dark
Movie

Director of Photography

Crew

2013

World Fair
Movie

Cinematography

2013

World Fair
Movie

Cinematography

Editing

Infos

Full Name
Ian Cheney
Gender
Male
Website
http://www.iancheney.com