Stephen Maing is an Emmy-award winning filmmaker and cinematographer based in New York. His most recent film Union, about the Amazon Labor Union’s historic unionization efforts at a warehouse in Staten Island, New York, directed with Brett Story, won a Special Jury Award for The Art of Change at the Sundance Film Festival. His feature documentary Crime + Punishment which he directed, filmed and edited won a 2018 Sundance Special Jury Award, 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, directed, filmed and edited over five years, and The Surrender, have screened internationally, received numerous awards and were released on POV and Field of Vision, respectively.

One of his upcoming films, The Great Experiment, is an ambitious cinematic time capsule of one of the most volatile and perplexing eras of American history & identity. 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. He is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and lives in Queens with his partner and young daughter.