Ian Cheney

Cheney grew up in Massachusetts[2] and Maine,[3] attended The Mountain School, a semester school for high school juniors,[4] and graduated from Milton Academy in 1998.[2] Cheney received bachelor's and master's degrees from Yale University in 2002 and 2003.[5]

He shared a Peabody Award in 2008 for King Corn, which he co-produced and starred in.[6] In 2011, he and longtime collaborator Curt Ellis received the 17th Annual Heinz Award with special focus on the environment, becoming the youngest recipients to receive the Heinz Award.[7] Cheney received an Emmy nomination in 2013 for his film The City Dark, which aired on PBS' POV.[8]

Cheney's 2018 film, The Most Unknown, was released in theaters in May, then on Netflix in 25 languages in the summer,[9] and finally posted in nine individual episodes in YouTube.[10]

Cheney runs Wicked Delicate Films, a documentary film production company based in Maine.[11] He is a co-founder and former member of the board of directors of the FoodCorps non-profit organization.[12] He is the brother of poet Colin Cheney.[13]

His most recent film The Long Coast premiered at a virtual version of the Camden International Film Festival in October 2020.[14]

• King Corn (2007), Co-creator, Co-producer, Cinematographer, Writer
• The Greening of Southie (2009), Director, Editor[15]
• Truck Farm (2011), Director[16]
• The City Dark (2012), Director[17]
• The Melungeons (2013), Director[11]
• The Search for General Tso (2014), Director[18]
• Bluespace (2015), Director  [19]
• The Smog of the Sea (2017), Director
• The Most Unknown (2018), Director [20]
• The Emoji Story (2019), Director  [21]
• Thirteen Ways (2019), Director [22]
• Picture a Scientist (2020), Director  [23]
• The Long Coast (2020), Director  [24]

• Ian Cheney at IMDb