Ian Cheney

Collaborator, Filmmaker

Ian Cheney is an Emmy-nominated and Peabody Award-winning documentary filmmaker.

He has completed ten feature documentaries, including King Corn (2007), The Greening of Southie (2008), The City Dark (2011), The Search for General Tso (2014), Bluespace (2015), The Most Unknown (2018), The Emoji Story (2019), Thirteen Ways (2019), Picture a Scientist (2020) and The Long Coast (2020).

His short films include Two Buckets (2006), Truck Farm (2010), The Melungeons (2013), The Smog of the Sea (2016) and The Measure of a Fog (2017).

He received bachelor’s & master’s degrees from Yale University, and an MFA in Film from the Vermont College of Fine Arts.

A former MacDowell Fellow & Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT, he lives in midcoast Maine.

For more information about Ian’s films, visit www.wickedelicate.com.

Publications

An Evolving Need for Trusted Information

As Robert Groves, Mary T. Bassett, Emily P. Backes, and Malvern Chiweshe describe in their article, the COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the value and importance of connecting social science to on-the-ground decisionmaking and solution-building processes, which require bridging societal sectors, academic fields, communities, and levels of governance. That the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine…