
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.
2026The Work in ProgressMovieDirector
2025The Last ClassMovieExecutive Producer
2025ObserverMovieDirector · Writer
2024Shelf LifeMovieDirector
2023Fight Like Hell: The Testimony of Mother JonesMovieDirector
2023The Arc of OblivionMovieWriter · Director
2020Picture a ScientistMovieProducer · Director
2020The Long CoastMovieDirector
2019The Emoji StoryMovieDirector · Producer · Director of Photography
2018The Most UnknownMovieDirector
2015BluespaceMovieDirector
2014The Search for General TsoMovieas self · Director
2013The MelungeonsMovieDirector
2013World FairMovieCinematography · Co-Producer
2012The City DarkMovieDirector · Producer · Editor · Writer · Director of Photography
2011Truck FarmMovieDirector
2010The GreenhornsMovieEditor