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

Ian Cheney
Ian Cheney
Occupation(s)Director, producer

Early life and education

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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]

Career

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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]

Filmography

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References

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  1. ^ "Ian Cheney". Retrieved April 4, 2014.
  2. ^ a b "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". Retrieved May 12, 2012.
  6. ^ "Complete List of 2008 Peabody Award Winners". Archived from the original on October 31, 2011. Retrieved May 7, 2012.
  7. ^ "The Heinz Awards: Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis". The Heinz Awards.
  8. ^ "POV Films Nominated for 9 News and Documentary Emmy Awards". PBS. Retrieved April 4, 2014.
  9. ^ Spangler, Todd (April 20, 2018). "Vice Inks Netflix, Theatrical Deals for Motherboard's 'The Most Unknown' Science Documentary (EXCLUSIVE)". Variety. Retrieved January 16, 2022.
  10. ^ "The Most Unknown Available on Netflix, Youtube". Simons Foundation. August 24, 2018. Retrieved January 9, 2022.
  11. ^ a b Wicked Delicate Films
  12. ^ FoodCorps directors Archived November 23, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
  13. ^ "Colin Cheney: The City Dark". Retrieved April 18, 2019.
  14. ^ 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.
  15. ^ "The Greening of Southie". Retrieved April 4, 2014.
  16. ^ "Truck Farm". Retrieved April 4, 2014.
  17. ^ "The City Dark". Retrieved April 4, 2014.
  18. ^ "The Search for General Tso". Retrieved April 4, 2014.
  19. ^ "Bluespace". Retrieved November 21, 2020.
  20. ^ "The Most Unknown". IMDb. August 9, 2018. Retrieved October 8, 2018.
  21. ^ "The Emoji Story". Retrieved June 15, 2021.
  22. ^ "Thirteen Ways". Retrieved November 17, 2020.
  23. ^ "Picture a Scientist". Retrieved November 21, 2020.
  24. ^ "The Long Coast". Retrieved November 21, 2020.
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