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.

Ian Cheney is known for work in directing across film and television. New Release currently presents 21 verified screen credits connected to this profile.

Selected work includes The Search for General Tso (2014), Truck Farm (2011), The Work in Progress (2026), Observer (2026), Big River (2010), Fight Like Hell: The Testimony of Mother Jones (2023), Picture a Scientist (2020), The Arc of Oblivion (2023). The recorded credits span 2007 to 2026, including 21 movies and 0 TV shows.

The filmography below lists available titles, release years and known roles. This profile is updated as additional verified information becomes available.