Crime + Punishment
Logline
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.
Stephen Maing
DIRECTOR, PRODUCER
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.
Ross Tuttle
CO-PRODUCER
Ross Tuttle has been a social-issue journalist/filmmaker for over 15 years. His work has appeared on Public Television; at various film festivals; and in The New York Times, The Nation, Foreign Policy and Huffington Post.