Stephen Maing
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Tribeca All Access® 2009
About
Stephen Maing is a Brooklyn-based Emmy Award-winning filmmaker and cinematographer. His feature documentary, HIGH TECH, LOW LIFE, about two of mainland China’s first citizen reporters, aired nationally on P.O.V. His short film THE SURRENDER produced with Field of Vision was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Short Documentary and received a World Press Photo Award. His most recent film, CRIME + PUNISHMENT, a visually immersive account of whistleblower cops in NYC, was shortlisted for an Oscar and received an Emmy Award for Outstanding Social Issue Documentary. Stephen is a Sundance Institute Fellow and recipient of the IDA’s Courage Under Fire award.
The Great Experiment
Two hundred and twenty-seven years after George Washington remarked on America as ”the last great experiment," an assembly of diverse documentary filmmakers from around the country consider a new experiment.
Crime + Punishment
Amidst a landmark lawsuit over illegal policing quotas, CRIME + PUNISHMENT (working title) intimately observes the real lives and struggles of a group of black and Latino whistleblower cops and the young minorities they are pressured to arrest and summons in New York City.
High Tech, Low Life
Truth and potential fame motivates a young vegetable seller to become one of china’s first citizen reporters, covering china’s controversial and censored news stories via his blog, digital camera, and blackberry.