Stephen Maing Director

Stephen Maing is an Emmy-award winning director and cinematographer. His films are cinematic investigations of societal phenomena, complex power structures and the fascinating individuals who challenge them. His feature documentary Crime + Punishment, which he directed, filmed and edited, won a Special Jury Award at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival, an Emmy 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, screened internationally and were released on P.O.V. and Field of Vision, respectively. Maing is a 2021 United States Artists Fellow, Sundance Institute Fellow, NBC Original Voices Fellow, John Jay/Harry Frank Guggenheim Reporting Fellow and a recipient of the IDA’s prestigious Courage Under Fire Award shared with the whistleblowers of the NYPD12. His most recent film Union, co-directed with Brett story, won a Special Jury Award at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival – and is an immersive cinéma vérité account of the historic efforts by workers to unionize the first Amazon fulfillment center. He is a frequent visiting artist, mentor, musician and educator based in Ridgewood, Queens.