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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 (…
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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.
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2026
The Work in Progress
Movie Director
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2025
The Last Class
Movie Executive Producer
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2025
Observer
Movie Director
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2024
Shelf Life
Movie Director
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2023
Fight Like Hell: The Testimony of Mother Jones
Movie Director
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2023
The Arc of Oblivion
Movie Writer
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2020
Picture a Scientist
Movie Producer
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2020
The Long Coast
Movie Director
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2019
The Emoji Story
Movie Director
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2018
The Most Unknown
Movie Director
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2017
The Smog of the Sea
Movie Writer
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2015
Bluespace
Movie Director
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2014
The Search for General Tso
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2013
The Melungeons
Movie Director
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2013
World Fair
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2012
The City Dark
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2011
Truck Farm
Movie Director
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2010
The Greenhorns
Movie Editor
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2010
Big River
Movie
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2008
The Greening of Southie
Movie Director
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2007
King Corn
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