Ian Cheney
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.
Known for
The Search for General Tso
April 20, 2014
The Most Unknown
March 16, 2018
King Corn
October 12, 2007
Picture a Scientist
November 11, 2020
The City Dark
January 20, 2012
Truck Farm
January 1, 2011
The Arc of Oblivion
March 18, 2023
The Emoji Story
April 28, 2019
The Last Class
June 27, 2025
The Long Coast
October 9, 2020
The Melungeons
December 31, 2013
Fight Like Hell: The Testimony of Mother Jones
April 19, 2023
Behind the camera20
- 2026The Work in Progress Director
- 2025The Last Class Executive Producer
- 2025Observer Director, Writer
- 2024Shelf Life Director
- 2023Fight Like Hell: The Testimony of Mother Jones Director
- 2023The Arc of Oblivion Writer, Director
- 2020Picture a Scientist Producer, Director
- 2020The Long Coast Director
- 2019The Emoji Story Director, Producer, Director of Photography
- 2018The Most Unknown