Director
Ian Cheney
16 films
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.
Best known for
Filmography 16
The Work in Progress
2026 · Director
Observer
2025 · Director, Writer
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
On Kanopy
The Long Coast
2020 · Director
The Emoji Story
2019 · Director, Producer
On OVID
The Most Unknown
2018 · Director
Bluespace
2015 · Director
On OVID
The Search for General Tso
2014 · self, Director
On AMC+
The Melungeons
2013 · Director
The City Dark
2012 · Actor, Director
On OVID
Truck Farm
2011 · Director
The Greenhorns
2010 · Editor
On Hoopla
King Corn
2007 · Himself, Writer
On Pluto TV