Keynote Address
Location
Ballroom, Hogan Campus Center, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Mass.
Start Date
1-6-2015 9:45 AM
End Date
1-6-2015 10:45 AM
Description
Ian Cheney is an Emmy-nominated and Peabody Award-winning documentary filmmaker. He grew up in Massachusetts and Maine and received Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from Yale University. His films and collaborations include Two Buckets (2006), King Corn (2007), The Greening of Southie (2008), Big River (2009), Truck Farm (2010), The City Dark (2011), The Melungeons (2012), and The Search for General Tso (2014). In 2011 he and longtime collaborator Curt Ellis received the Heinz Award in recognition of their work using humor and innovative programming to engage people about sustainable food. A co-founder of FoodCorps and a director/producer at Wicked Delicate Films LLC, he is currently a 2014-2015 Knight fellow at MIT.
Keynote Address
Ballroom, Hogan Campus Center, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Mass.
Ian Cheney is an Emmy-nominated and Peabody Award-winning documentary filmmaker. He grew up in Massachusetts and Maine and received Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from Yale University. His films and collaborations include Two Buckets (2006), King Corn (2007), The Greening of Southie (2008), Big River (2009), Truck Farm (2010), The City Dark (2011), The Melungeons (2012), and The Search for General Tso (2014). In 2011 he and longtime collaborator Curt Ellis received the Heinz Award in recognition of their work using humor and innovative programming to engage people about sustainable food. A co-founder of FoodCorps and a director/producer at Wicked Delicate Films LLC, he is currently a 2014-2015 Knight fellow at MIT.
