Headshot of Ian Cheney from the shoulders up wearing a headlight and button down collared shirt
Ian Cheney
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Director

Ian Cheney (he/him) is an Emmy-nominated and Peabody Award-winning documentary filmmaker. He has completed nine 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), Picture Character (2019), and Thirteen Ways (2019). His films have been released on Netflix, PBS, The Sundance Channel, VICE Media, and other networks. A former MacDowell Colony fellow and Knight Science Journalism fellow at MIT, he lives in Maine.

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Anabel Rodríguez Ríos smiles at the camera
Anabel Rodríguez Ríos
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Maria Finitzo faces the camera and smiles with a big light behind her
Maria Finitzo
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Eli Despres looks directly at the camera.
Eli Despres
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Elyse Steinberg looks directly at the camera and smiles
Elyse Steinberg
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Cecilia Aldarondo is looking away from the camera. She has medium curly hair and is wearing lipstick.
Cecilia Aldarondo
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Sharon Shattuck
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Shalini Kantayya looks directly at the camera and smiles. The wind blows her hair.
Shalini Kantayya
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black and white headshot of filmmaker Erika Cohn. a young woman with shoulder length, dark wavy hair looks directly at the camera. She has light colored eyes ringed with dark eyeliner and wears large silver earrings.
Erika Cohn
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