Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis run the Brooklyn-based documentary and advocacy organization Wicked Delicate.
Ian and Curt graduated from Yale College in 2002, where they helped launch the Yale Sustainable Food Project and the freshman orientation program Harvest.
After college they turned to film, moving to Iowa to farm an acre of industrial corn, homebrew high-fructose corn syrup, and create the Mosaic Films documentary King Corn. The film showed in theaters in 60 cities, aired nationally on PBS, and won a Peabody Award.
Ian and Curt next created The Greening of Southie, a documentary about the men and women behind Boston’s first green building. That film was released in theaters, broadcast nationally on the Sundance Channel, shown in union halls around the country, and featured on Good Morning America, NPR, and in The New Yorker magazine.
In 2009, Ian and Curt launched Big River, a 30-minute documentary about the ecological consequences of industrial agriculture, created under Curt's Food and Society Fellowship with the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy.
They have served as jurors for Wisconsin International Film Festival, Camden International Film Festival and BendFilm, and have spoken at more than 100 college and corporate campuses from California to Qatar. They are now working to start a national AmeriCorps school garden and Farm to School service program, FoodCorps.
