Ian Cheney
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Ian Cheney is an American documentary filmmaker, cinematographer, and producer.[1]
Early life and education
[edit | edit source]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 received his Master of Fine Arts in Filmmaking from the Vermont College of Fine Arts in 2018.[6]
Career
[edit | edit source]He shared a Peabody Award in 2008 for King Corn, which he co-produced and starred in.[7] 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.[8] Cheney received an Emmy nomination in 2013 for his film The City Dark, which aired on PBS' POV.[9]
Cheney's 2018 film, The Most Unknown, was released in theaters in May, then on Netflix in 25 languages in the summer,[10] and finally posted in nine individual episodes in YouTube.[11]
Cheney runs Wicked Delicate Films, a documentary film production company based in Maine.[12] He is a co-founder and former member of the board of directors of the FoodCorps non-profit organization.[13] He is the brother of poet Colin Cheney.[14]
His film The Long Coast premiered at a virtual version of the Camden International Film Festival in October 2020.[15]
His most recent films include Picture a Scientist (2020), The Arc of Oblivion (2023), Shelf Life (2024) and Observer (2025). He has completed fourteen feature-length documentaries. [16]
Filmography
[edit | edit source]- King Corn (2007), Co-creator, Co-producer, Cinematographer, Writer
- The Greening of Southie (2009), Director, Editor[17]
- Truck Farm (2011), Director[18]
- The City Dark (2012), Director[19]
- The Melungeons (2013), Director[12]
- The Search for General Tso (2014), Director[20]
- Bluespace (2015), Director [21]
- The Smog of the Sea (2017), Director
- The Most Unknown (2018), Director [22]
- The Emoji Story (2019), Director [23]
- Thirteen Ways (2019), Director [24]
- Picture a Scientist (2020), Director [25]
- The Long Coast (2020), Director [26]
- Postcards from Vershire (2021), Director [16]
- The Arc of Oblivion (2023), Director [16]
- Shelf Life (2024), Director [16]
- Observer (2025), Director [16]
- The Last Class (2025), Executive Producer [16]
References
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External links
[edit | edit source]- Ian Cheney at IMDb