Ian Cheney | |
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Occupation(s) | Director, producer |
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]
Ian Cheney | |
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Occupation(s) | Director, producer |
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]