Ian Cheney(I)
- Producer
- Director
- Cinematographer
Ian Cheney is an Emmy-nominated and Peabody Award-winning documentary filmmaker. He grew up in New England and received bachelor's and master's degrees from Yale University.
After graduate school, Ian co-created, co-produced and starred in the feature documentary King Corn (2007), which aired on PBS and was awarded a George Foster Peabody Award in 2009. Ian subsequently directed the feature documentary The Greening of Southie (2008), featured in The New Yorker and on Good Morning America; Truck Farm (2011), the story of urban agriculture in New York City; The City Dark (2011), a feature documentary about light pollution and the disappearing night; The Search for General Tso (2014), a feature documentary about American Chinese food; Bluespace (2015), which explores the terraforming of Mars and the waterways of New York City; and The Smog of the Sea, a collaboration with musician Jack Johnson about microplastics in the sea. His most recent film, The Most Unknown (2018), is a feature documentary profiling 9 scientists working on the fringes of human knowledge.
He has also produced short films for The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Guardian and The Undark. A co-founder of FoodCorps, a nationwide public service organization, in 2011 he and longtime collaborator Curt Ellis were awarded the Heinz Award for their work in sustainability. In 2014-2015, Ian was a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT. Formerly a visiting professor at the Università degli Studi di Scienze Gastronomiche in Italy, he is now an adjunct professor at Yale College.
He lives in Maine with his wife Amanda Murray, a curator and film producer, and their son Kepler.
After graduate school, Ian co-created, co-produced and starred in the feature documentary King Corn (2007), which aired on PBS and was awarded a George Foster Peabody Award in 2009. Ian subsequently directed the feature documentary The Greening of Southie (2008), featured in The New Yorker and on Good Morning America; Truck Farm (2011), the story of urban agriculture in New York City; The City Dark (2011), a feature documentary about light pollution and the disappearing night; The Search for General Tso (2014), a feature documentary about American Chinese food; Bluespace (2015), which explores the terraforming of Mars and the waterways of New York City; and The Smog of the Sea, a collaboration with musician Jack Johnson about microplastics in the sea. His most recent film, The Most Unknown (2018), is a feature documentary profiling 9 scientists working on the fringes of human knowledge.
He has also produced short films for The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Guardian and The Undark. A co-founder of FoodCorps, a nationwide public service organization, in 2011 he and longtime collaborator Curt Ellis were awarded the Heinz Award for their work in sustainability. In 2014-2015, Ian was a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT. Formerly a visiting professor at the Università degli Studi di Scienze Gastronomiche in Italy, he is now an adjunct professor at Yale College.
He lives in Maine with his wife Amanda Murray, a curator and film producer, and their son Kepler.
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