Stephen Maing

Stephen Maing is an Emmy® Award-winning filmmaker based in New York. His feature documentary Crime + Punishment, which he directed, filmed, and edited, won a Special Jury Award at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival, an Emmy® Award for Outstanding Social Issue Documentary, and was Shortlisted for the Academy Award® for Best Documentary. His previous films, High Tech, Low Life, and The Surrender, have screened internationally and were released on POV and Field of Vision, respectively. His films seek to expand the aesthetic form and limits of longitudinal nonfiction filmmaking and are visual investigations of societal phenomena and complex power structures. Maing is a 2021 United States Artists Fellow, Sundance Institute Fellow, NBC Original Voices Fellow, and a recipient of the IDA's prestigious Courage Under Fire Award shared with the whistleblowers of the NYPD12.