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