Ian Cheney

Ian Cheney

Ian Cheney
Occupation Director, producer

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

Cheny grew up in Massachusetts[2] and Maine,[3] graduated from Milton Academy in 1998,[2] and received bachelor's and master's degrees from Yale University in 2002 and 2003.[4]

He shared a Peabody Award in 2008 for King Corn, which he co-produced and starred in.[5] In 2011 he and longtime collaborator Curt Ellis were the youngest recipients to receive the Heinz Award[6] Cheney received an Emmy nomination in 2013 for his film The City Dark, which aired on PBS' POV.[7]

Cheney runs Wicked Delicate Films, a documentary film production company based in Brooklyn and western Massachusetts.[8] He is a co-founder and former member of the board of directors of the FoodCorps non-profit organization.[9]

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