Ian Cheney Movies, TV Series

Ian Cheney is an accomplished documentary filmmaker whose work has earned him both Emmy nominations and a Peabody Award. Over the years, he has directed ten feature-length documentaries that explore various facets of culture and the environment. His notable films include *King Corn* (2007), which de... Read morelves into the corn industry, *The Greening of Southie* (2008), an examination of sustainable building practices, *The City Dark* (2011), which investigates light pollution, and *The Search for General Tso* (2014), a culinary journey that uncovers the history of a popular Chinese dish. Other significant works include *Bluespace* (2015), *The Most Unknown* (2018), *The Emoji Story* (2019), *Thirteen Ways* (2019), *Picture a Scientist* (2020), and *The Long Coast* (2020). Cheney has also created several short films, such as *Two Buckets* (2006), *Truck Farm* (2010), *The Melungeons* (2013), *The Smog of the Sea* (2016), and *The Measure of a Fog* (2017). He holds both bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Yale University, along with an MFA in Film from the Vermont College of Fine Arts. Ian is a former MacDowell Fellow and a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT, currently residing in midcoast Maine. To learn more about Ian’s body of work, please visit www.wickedelicate.com.