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.
Directed 14
2020s
- 2026
Observer
Director
The Work in Progress
Director
- 2024
Shelf Life
Director
- 2023
Fight Like Hell: The Testimony of Mother Jones
Director
The Arc of Oblivion
Director
- 2020
The Long Coast
Director
2010s
- 2019
The Emoji Story
Director
- 2018
The Most Unknown
Director
- 2015
Bluespace
Director
- 2014
The Search for General Tso
Director
- 2013
The Melungeons
Director
- 2012
The City Dark
Director
- 2011
Truck Farm
Director
Produced 6
2020s
- 2025
The Last Class
Executive Producer
- 2020
2010s
- 2019
The Emoji Story
Producer
- 2013
World Fair
Co-Producer
- 2012
The City Dark
Producer
2000s
- 2007
King Corn
Producer
Wrote 4
2020s
- 2026
Observer
Writer
- 2023
The Arc of Oblivion
Writer
2010s
- 2012
The City Dark
Writer
2000s
- 2007
King Corn
Writer
Edited 2
2010s
- 2012
The City Dark
Editor
- 2010
The Greenhorns
Editor
Camera 2
2010s
- 2019
The Emoji Story
Director of Photography
- 2012
The City Dark
Director of Photography
Acted in 1
2010s
- 2012
The City Dark
Movie
Other crew 1
2010s
- 2013
World Fair
Cinematography
Appearances2
2010s
- 2014
The Search for General Tso
self
2000s
- 2007
King Corn
Himself