Picture a Scientist
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Ian Cheney
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About Ian Cheney
Ian Cheney is an Emmy-nominated and Peabody Award-winning documentary filmmaker. He has completed ten feature documentaries, including King Corn (2007), The Greening of Southie (2008), The City Dark (2011), The Search for General Tso (2014), Bluespace (2015), The Most Unknown (2018), The Emoji Story (2019), Thirteen Ways (2019), Picture a Scientist (2020) and The Long Coast (2020). His short films include Two Buckets (2006), Truck Farm (2010), The Melungeons (2013), The Smog of the Sea (2016) and The Measure of a Fog (2017). He received bachelor’s & master’s degrees from Yale University, and an MFA in Film from the Vermont College of Fine Arts. A former MacDowell Fellow & Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT, he lives in midcoast Maine. For more information about Ian’s films, visit www.wickedelicate.com.
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16 directing credits · Includes cameos and other appearances where listed.
Observer
Director, Writer
The Work in Progress
Director
The Most Unknown
Director
The Melungeons
Director
The Arc of Oblivion
Writer, Director
The Emoji Story
Director, Producer, Director of Photography
Truck Farm
Director
Bluespace
Director
Shelf Life
Director
The City Dark
Director, Producer, Editor, Writer, Director of Photography
The Smog of the Sea
The Smog of the Sea
Writer, Cinematography, Director, Editor
The Search for General Tso
Director
The Long Coast
Director