Stephen T. Maing
- Directing
Biography
Stephen Maing is an Emmy-winning New York-based filmmaker, cinematographer, and editor known for observational, longitudinal documentaries about power and resistance. He co-directed UNION (2024), which won a Special Jury Award at Sundance, and directed, filmed, and edited Crime + Punishment (2018), which won a Sundance Special Jury Award, an Emmy for Outstanding Social Issue Documentary, and was Oscar-shortlisted. Other credits include High Tech, Low Life, The Surrender, Dirty Gold, and The Great Experiment. He is a 2026 Guggenheim Fellow, a United States Artists Fellow, and a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Known for
Filmography
- The Great Experiment · Director
- All the Empty Rooms · Editing
- Local One · Director, Cinematography
- Union · Director, Editing
- Look into My Eyes · Cinematography
- Emergent City · Executive producer
- The Strike · Consulting Producer
- After the Bite · Cinematography
- Nothing Is Truer than Truth · Camera Operator, Co-producer
- Dirty Money · Director
- Crime + Punishment · Director, Cinematography
- The Release · Director
- The Surrender · Director
- Hers To Lose · Director
- ANNIE: It's the Hard-Knock Life, from Script to Stage · Co-producer, Cinematography
- High Tech, Low Life · Director
- Tie a Yellow Ribbon · Editing
- POV · Director, Cinematography
- Basic Emotions · Editing