Occupation Director, producer Name Ian Cheney | Role Filmmaker | |
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Education Yale University, Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies Nominations News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Science And Technology Programming Movies King Corn, The City Dark, The Search for General Tso, The Greening of Southie, Truck Farm Similar Curt Ellis, Aaron Woolf, Jennifer 8 Lee, Marc Weiss | ||
Filmmaker ian cheney at amherst cinema s 10th anniversary launch party
Ian Cheney is an American documentary filmmaker, cinematographer, and producer.
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Cheney grew up in Massachusetts and Maine, attended The Mountain School, a semester school for high school juniors, and graduated from Milton Academy in 1998. Cheney received bachelor's and master's degrees from Yale University in 2002 and 2003.
He shared a Peabody Award in 2008 for King Corn, which he co-produced and starred in. In 2011 he and longtime collaborator Curt Ellis were the youngest recipients to receive the Heinz Award Cheney received an Emmy nomination in 2013 for his film The City Dark, which aired on PBS' POV.
Cheney runs Wicked Delicate Films, a documentary film production company based in Brooklyn and western Massachusetts. He is a co-founder and former member of the board of directors of the FoodCorps non-profit organization.
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