Ian Cheney
- Known for
- Directing
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
Observer 2026
Director, Writer
The Work in Progress 2026
Director
The Last Class 2025
Executive Producer
Shelf Life 2024
Director
Fight Like Hell: The Testimony of Mother Jones 2023
Director
The Arc of Oblivion 2023
Writer, Director
Picture a Scientist 2020
Producer, Director
The Long Coast 2020
Director
The Emoji Story 2019
Director, Producer, Director of Photography
The Most Unknown 2018
Director
- The Smog of the Sea
The Smog of the Sea 2017
Writer, Cinematography, Director, Editor
Bluespace 2015
Director
The Search for General Tso 2014
as self, Director
The Melungeons 2013
Director
World Fair 2013
Cinematography, Co-Producer
The City Dark 2012
Actor, Director, Producer, Editor, Writer, Director of Photography
Truck Farm 2011
Director
The Greenhorns 2010
Editor
- Big River
Big River 2010
Actor
- The Greening of Southie
The Greening of Southie 2008
Director
King Corn 2007
as Himself, Writer, Producer
Credits from TMDB.