Ian Cheney

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Ian Cheney
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Ian Cheney
OccupationsDirector, producer

Ian Cheney is an American documentary filmmaker, cinematographer, and producer. [1]

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Early life and education

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

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

References

  1. ↑ "Ian Cheney" . Retrieved April 4, 2014.
  2. 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.
  3. ↑ "Maine filmmaker has eyes on the skies". July 24, 2011. Retrieved May 12, 2012.
  4. ↑ "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.
  5. ↑ "Honolulu Screening of 'The City Dark' by Ian Cheney '02". Archived from the original on December 3, 2013. Retrieved May 12, 2012.
  6. ↑ https://storyboard.vcfa.edu/ian-cheneys-18-films-thirteen-ways-and-picture-character-premiere-in-dc-and-tribeca/
  7. ↑ "Complete List of 2008 Peabody Award Winners". Archived from the original on October 31, 2011. Retrieved May 7, 2012.
  8. ↑ "The Heinz Awards: Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis". The Heinz Awards.
  9. ↑ "POV Films Nominated for 9 News and Documentary Emmy Awards". PBS . Archived from the original on July 17, 2013. Retrieved April 4, 2014.
  10. ↑ Spangler, Todd (April 20, 2018). "Vice Inks Netflix, Theatrical Deals for Motherboard's 'The Most Unknown' Science Documentary (EXCLUSIVE)". Variety. Retrieved January 16, 2022.
  11. ↑ "The Most Unknown Available on Netflix, Youtube". Simons Foundation. August 24, 2018. Retrieved January 9, 2022.
  12. 1 2 Wicked Delicate Films
  13. ↑ FoodCorps directors Archived November 23, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
  14. ↑ "Colin Cheney: The City Dark". Archived from the original on April 18, 2019. Retrieved April 18, 2019.
  15. ↑ 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.
  16. ↑ www.wickedelicate.com
  17. ↑ "The Greening of Southie" . Retrieved April 4, 2014.
  18. ↑ "Truck Farm" . Retrieved April 4, 2014.
  19. ↑ "The City Dark" . Retrieved April 4, 2014.
  20. ↑ "The Search for General Tso" . Retrieved April 4, 2014.
  21. ↑ "Bluespace" . Retrieved November 21, 2020.
  22. ↑ "The Most Unknown". IMDb. August 9, 2018. Retrieved October 8, 2018.
  23. ↑ "The Emoji Story" . Retrieved June 15, 2021.
  24. ↑ "Thirteen Ways" . Retrieved November 17, 2020.
  25. ↑ "Picture a Scientist" . Retrieved November 21, 2020.
  26. ↑ "The Long Coast" . Retrieved November 21, 2020.
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