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Ian Cheney

Producer, Director, Writer, Editor, Additional Credits
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.

Movies & Shows on Plex

  • The Search for General Tso

Known For

  • The Most Unknown
  • King Corn
  • The Search for General Tso
  • Picture a Scientist
  • The City Dark
  • The Emoji Story
  • From This Day Forward
  • A Sense of Wonder
  • Independent Lens
  • P.O.V.

Filmography

2020
2019
2018
2015
2015
From This Day Forward · as Co-Producer
2011
2007
1999
Independent Lens (TV Series) · as Co-Producer
1988
P.O.V. (TV Series) · as Co-Producer

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