Ian Cheney
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Ian Cheney is an American documentary filmmaker, cinematographer, and producer.[1]
Early life and education
[edit]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]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]- 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
[edit]- ↑ "Ian Cheney". Retrieved April 4, 2014.
- 1 2 "Ian Cheney '98 – What's wrong with how America thinks of food?" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on November 27, 2010. Retrieved May 12, 2012.
- ↑ "Maine filmmaker has eyes on the skies". July 24, 2011. Retrieved May 12, 2012.
- ↑ "Meet & Eat: Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis of Truck Farm, a Farm on a Truck". seriouseats.com. June 9, 2010. Archived from the original on October 2, 2020.
- ↑ "Honolulu Screening of 'The City Dark' by Ian Cheney '02". Archived from the original on December 3, 2013. Retrieved May 12, 2012.
- ↑ "Ian Cheney's ('18) films, THIRTEEN WAYS and PICTURE CHARACTER, premiere | VCFA MFA in Film Blog". March 22, 2019.
- ↑ "Complete List of 2008 Peabody Award Winners". Archived from the original on October 31, 2011. Retrieved May 7, 2012.
- ↑ "The Heinz Awards: Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis". The Heinz Awards.
- ↑ "POV Films Nominated for 9 News and Documentary Emmy Awards". PBS. Archived from the original on July 17, 2013. Retrieved April 4, 2014.
- ↑ Spangler, Todd (April 20, 2018). "Vice Inks Netflix, Theatrical Deals for Motherboard's 'The Most Unknown' Science Documentary (EXCLUSIVE)". Variety. Retrieved January 16, 2022.
- ↑ "The Most Unknown Available on Netflix, Youtube". Simons Foundation. August 24, 2018. Retrieved January 9, 2022.
- 1 2 Wicked Delicate Films
- ↑ FoodCorps directors Archived November 23, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ "Colin Cheney: The City Dark". Archived from the original on April 18, 2019. Retrieved April 18, 2019.
- ↑ Keough, Peter (September 17, 2020). "At this year's Camden International Film Festival: surveying the Maine coast, tracking down Berlin Wall segments, and targeting suspects overseas - The Boston Globe". BostonGlobe.com. Retrieved December 21, 2020.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 https://www.wickedelicate.com.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ↑ "The Greening of Southie". Retrieved April 4, 2014.
- ↑ "Truck Farm". Archived from the original on April 7, 2014. Retrieved April 4, 2014.
- ↑ "The City Dark". Retrieved April 4, 2014.
- ↑ "The Search for General Tso". Archived from the original on April 13, 2014. Retrieved April 4, 2014.
- ↑ "Bluespace". Retrieved November 21, 2020.
- ↑ "The Most Unknown". IMDb. August 9, 2018. Retrieved October 8, 2018.
- ↑ "The Emoji Story". Retrieved June 15, 2021.
- ↑ "Thirteen Ways". Retrieved November 17, 2020.
- ↑ "Picture a Scientist". Retrieved November 21, 2020.
- ↑ "The Long Coast". Retrieved November 21, 2020.
External links
[edit]- Ian Cheney at IMDb