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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.
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2026
The Great Experiment
Movie Director
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2025
All the Empty Rooms
Movie Editor
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2025
Local One
Movie Director
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2024
Union
Movie Director
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2024
Look into My Eyes
Movie Director of Photography
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2024
Emergent City
Movie Executive Producer
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2024
The Strike
Movie Consulting Producer
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2023
After the Bite
Movie Director of Photography
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2018
Nothing Is Truer than Truth
Movie Camera Operator
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2018
Dirty Money
TV show Director
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2018
Crime + Punishment
Movie Director
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2016
The Release
Movie Director
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2015
The Surrender
Movie Director
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2013
Hers To Lose
Movie Director
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2013
ANNIE: It's the Hard-Knock Life, from Script to Stage
Movie Co-Producer
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2012
High Tech, Low Life
Movie Director
More credits
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2007
Tie a Yellow Ribbon
Movie Editor
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1988
Point of View
TV show Director
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Basic Emotions
Movie Editor