Ian Cheney
An image from The Search for General Tso, one of the productions that also features Ian Cheney.
Ian Cheney

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 (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.

The Search for General Tso

The Search for General Tso

2014

The Most Unknown

The Most Unknown

2018

King Corn

King Corn

2007

Picture a Scientist

Picture a Scientist

2020

The City Dark

The City Dark

2012

The Emoji Story

The Emoji Story

2020

Truck Farm

Truck Farm

2011

The Arc of Oblivion

The Arc of Oblivion

2023