Ian Cheney Explained

Ian Cheney
Occupation:Director, producer

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

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]

Career

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

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Ian Cheney . April 4, 2014.
  2. Web site: Ian Cheney '98  - What's wrong with how America thinks of food? . May 12, 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20101127153428/http://milton.edu/news/upload/magazine_spring05.pdf . November 27, 2010 . dead .
  3. Web site: Maine filmmaker has eyes on the skies . July 24, 2011 . May 12, 2012.
  4. Web site: June 9, 2010. Meet & Eat: Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis of Truck Farm, a Farm on a Truck. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20201002114213/https://www.seriouseats.com/2010/06/ian-cheney-and-curt-ellis-of-truck-farm-king-corn-documentary.html. October 2, 2020. seriouseats.com.
  5. Web site: Honolulu Screening of 'The City Dark' by Ian Cheney '02 . May 12, 2012.
  6. Web site: Complete List of 2008 Peabody Award Winners . May 7, 2012 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20111031044823/http://www.peabody.uga.edu/winners/winners_2000s.php#2008 . October 31, 2011 . mdy-all .
  7. Web site: The Heinz Awards: Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis. The Heinz Awards.
  8. Web site: POV Films Nominated for 9 News and Documentary Emmy Awards . . April 4, 2014.
  9. Web site: Spangler. Todd. 2018-04-20. Vice Inks Netflix, Theatrical Deals for Motherboard's 'The Most Unknown' Science Documentary (EXCLUSIVE). 2022-01-16. Variety. en-US.
  10. Web site: 2018-08-24. The Most Unknown Available on Netflix, Youtube. 2022-01-09. Simons Foundation. en-US.
  11. http://wickedelicate.com Wicked Delicate Films
  12. http://foodcorps.org/about/our-team-1/our-board-of-directors FoodCorps directors
  13. Web site: Colin Cheney: The City Dark. April 18, 2019.
  14. Web site: 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. 2020-12-21. BostonGlobe.com.
  15. Web site: The Greening of Southie . April 4, 2014.
  16. Web site: Truck Farm . April 4, 2014.
  17. Web site: The City Dark . April 4, 2014.
  18. Web site: The Search for General Tso . April 4, 2014.
  19. Web site: Bluespace . November 21, 2020.
  20. Web site: The Most Unknown . August 9, 2018 . . October 8, 2018.
  21. Web site: The Emoji Story . June 15, 2021.
  22. Web site: Thirteen Ways . November 17, 2020.
  23. Web site: Picture a Scientist . November 21, 2020.
  24. Web site: The Long Coast . November 21, 2020.

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