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Ian Cheney

Ian Cheney

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Updated Aug 05, 2025
Entry Date Apr 13, 2024
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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 Stor ... y (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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The Arc of Oblivion

The Arc of Oblivion

2023

Writer

The Emoji Story

The Emoji Story

2020

Director of Photography

The Greenhorns

The Greenhorns

2010

Editor

King Corn

King Corn

2007

Writer

The Arc of Oblivion

The Arc of Oblivion

2023

Director

Picture a Scientist

Picture a Scientist

2020

Director

The Emoji Story

The Emoji Story

2020

Director

The Most Unknown

The Most Unknown

2018

Director

Bluespace

Bluespace

2015

Director

The City Dark

The City Dark

2012

Director

Truck Farm

Truck Farm

2011

Director

Picture a Scientist

Picture a Scientist

2020

Producer

The Emoji Story

The Emoji Story

2020

Producer

King Corn

King Corn

2007

Producer

Organization Category Movie
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