Ian Cheney
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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, an…
The Work in Progress
2026 · Director
The Last Class
2025 · Executive Producer
Observer
2025 · Director
Observer
2025 · Writer
Shelf Life
2024 · Director
Fight Like Hell: The Testimony of Mother Jones
2023 · Director
The Arc of Oblivion
2023 · Writer
The Arc of Oblivion
2023 · Director
Picture a Scientist
2020 · Producer
Picture a Scientist
2020 · Director
The Long Coast
2020 · Director
The Emoji Story
2019 · Director
The Emoji Story
2019 · Producer
The Emoji Story
2019 · Director of Photography
The Most Unknown
2018 · Director
The Smog of the Sea
2017 · Writer
The Smog of the Sea
2017 · Cinematography
The Smog of the Sea
2017 · Director
The Smog of the Sea
2017 · Editor
Bluespace
2015 · Director
The Search for General Tso
2014 · self
The Search for General Tso
2014 · Director
The Melungeons
2013 · Director
World Fair
2013 · Cinematography
World Fair
2013 · Co-Producer
The City Dark
2012
The City Dark
2012 · Director
The City Dark
2012 · Producer
The City Dark
2012 · Editor
The City Dark
2012 · Writer
The City Dark
2012 · Director of Photography
Truck Farm
2011 · Director
The Greenhorns
2010 · Editor
Big River
2010
The Greening of Southie
2008 · Director
King Corn
2007 · Himself
King Corn
2007 · Writer
King Corn
2007 · Producer
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