Ian Cheney

Cheney grew up in Massachusetts{{cite web |url=http://www.milton.edu/news/upload/magazine_spring05.pdf |title=Ian Cheney '98 – What's wrong with how America thinks of food? |accessdate=May 12, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101127153428/http://milton.edu/news/upload/magazine_spring05.pdf |archive-date=November 27, 2010 |url-status=dead }} and Maine,{{cite web |url=http://bangordailynews.com/2011/07/24/living/maine-filmmaker-has-eyes-on-the-skies |title=Maine filmmaker has eyes on the skies |date=July 24, 2011 |accessdate=May 12, 2012}} attended The Mountain School, a semester school for high school juniors,{{Cite web|date=June 9, 2010|title=Meet & Eat: Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis of Truck Farm, a Farm on a Truck|url=http://www.seriouseats.com/2010/06/ian-cheney-and-curt-ellis-of-truck-farm-king-corn-documentary.htm|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201002114213/https://www.seriouseats.com/2010/06/ian-cheney-and-curt-ellis-of-truck-farm-king-corn-documentary.html|archive-date=October 2, 2020|website=seriouseats.com}} and graduated from Milton Academy in 1998. Cheney received bachelor's and master's degrees from Yale University in 2002 and 2003.{{cite web |url=http://www.aya.yale.edu/event/honolulu-screening-city-dark-ian-cheney-02 |title=Honolulu Screening of 'The City Dark' by Ian Cheney '02 |accessdate=May 12, 2012}}

He shared a Peabody Award in 2008 for King Corn, which he co-produced and starred in.{{cite web |url=http://www.peabody.uga.edu/winners/winners_2000s.php#2008 |title=Complete List of 2008 Peabody Award Winners |access-date=May 7, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111031044823/http://www.peabody.uga.edu/winners/winners_2000s.php#2008 |archive-date=October 31, 2011 |df=mdy-all }} 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.{{cite web|title=The Heinz Awards: Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis|url=http://www.heinzawards.net/recipients/ian-cheney-curt-ellis|website=The Heinz Awards}} Cheney received an Emmy nomination in 2013 for his film The City Dark, which aired on PBS' POV.{{cite web |url=https://www.pbs.org/pov/pressroom/2013/pov-films-nominated-for-9-news-documentary-emmy-awards.php |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130717030754/http://www.pbs.org/pov/pressroom/2013/pov-films-nominated-for-9-news-documentary-emmy-awards.php |url-status=dead |archive-date=July 17, 2013 | title=POV Films Nominated for 9 News and Documentary Emmy Awards | website=PBS |accessdate=April 4, 2014}}

Cheney's 2018 film, The Most Unknown, was released in theaters in May, then on Netflix in 25 languages in the summer,{{Cite web|last=Spangler|first=Todd|date=2018-04-20|title=Vice Inks Netflix, Theatrical Deals for Motherboard's 'The Most Unknown' Science Documentary (EXCLUSIVE)|url=https://variety.com/2018/digital/news/netflix-vice-motherboard-most-unknown-documentary-theatrical-1202764193/|access-date=2022-01-16|website=Variety|language=en-US}} and finally posted in nine individual episodes in YouTube.{{Cite web|date=2018-08-24|title=The Most Unknown Available on Netflix, Youtube|url=https://www.simonsfoundation.org/2018/08/24/the-most-unknown-selected-to-open-major-film-festival/|access-date=2022-01-09|website=Simons Foundation|language=en-US}}

Cheney runs Wicked Delicate Films, a documentary film production company based in Maine.[http://wickedelicate.com Wicked Delicate Films] He is a co-founder and former member of the board of directors of the FoodCorps non-profit organization.[http://foodcorps.org/about/our-team-1/our-board-of-directors FoodCorps directors] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121123043733/http://foodcorps.org/about/our-team-1/our-board-of-directors |date=November 23, 2012}} He is the brother of poet Colin Cheney.{{cite web|title=Colin Cheney: The City Dark|url=https://www.colincheney.com/the-city-dark|accessdate=April 18, 2019}}

His most recent film The Long Coast premiered at a virtual version of the Camden International Film Festival in October 2020.{{cite web|last=Keough |first=Peter |date=September 17, 2020|title=At this year's Camden International Film Festival: surveying the Maine coast, tracking down Berlin Wall segments, and targeting suspects overseas - The Boston Globe|url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/09/17/arts/this-years-camden-international-film-festival-surveying-maine-coast-tracking-down-berlin-wall-segments-targeting-suspects-overseas/|access-date=2020-12-21|website=BostonGlobe.com}}

• King Corn (2007), Co-creator, Co-producer, Cinematographer, Writer
• The Greening of Southie (2009), Director, Editor{{cite web |url=http://www.greeningofsouthie.com | title=The Greening of Southie |accessdate=April 4, 2014}}
• Truck Farm (2011), Director{{cite web |url=http://www.truckfarm.org | title=Truck Farm |accessdate=April 4, 2014}}
• The City Dark (2012), Director{{cite web |url=http://www.thecitydark.com | title=The City Dark |accessdate=April 4, 2014}}
• The Melungeons (2013), Director
• The Search for General Tso (2014), Director{{cite web |url=http://tribecafilm.com/filmguide/53208ae0c07f5df7d2000729-search-for-general-tso | title=The Search for General Tso |accessdate=April 4, 2014}}
• Bluespace (2015), Director  {{cite web |url=https://www.docnyc.net/film/bluespace/// |title=Bluespace |accessdate=November 21, 2020}}
• The Smog of the Sea (2017), Director
• The Most Unknown (2018), Director {{cite web |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8126390/ |title=The Most Unknown |date=August 9, 2018 |publisher=IMDb |accessdate=October 8, 2018}}
• The Emoji Story (2019), Director  {{cite web |url=https://www.theemojistory.com/#crew |title=The Emoji Story |accessdate=June 15, 2021}}
• Thirteen Ways (2019), Director {{cite web |url=https://dceff.org/film/thirteen-ways/ |title=Thirteen Ways |accessdate=November 17, 2020}}
• Picture a Scientist (2020), Director  {{cite web |url=https://www.pictureascientist.com/ |title=Picture a Scientist |accessdate=November 21, 2020}}
• The Long Coast (2020), Director  {{cite web |url=https://www.thelongcoast.me/ |title=The Long Coast |accessdate=November 21, 2020}}

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