Ian Cheney

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 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.

Directed

1. The Search for General Tso (2014) — Director
2. The Most Unknown (2018) — Director
3. The City Dark (2012) — Director
4. Picture a Scientist (2020) — Director
5. Truck Farm (2011) — Director
6. The Arc of Oblivion (2023) — Director
7. The Emoji Story (2020) — Director
8. The Long Coast (2020) — Director
9. The Smog of the Sea (2017) — Director
10. The Melungeons (2013) — Director
11. Fight Like Hell: The Testimony of Mother Jones (2023) — Director
12. Shelf Life (2024) — Director
13. Bluespace (2015) — Director
14. The Greening of Southie (2008) — Director
15. Observer (2025) — Director

Also appeared in

1. The Search for General Tso (2014) — self
2. King Corn (2007) — Himself
3. The City Dark (2012)
4. Big River (2010)