Stephen Maing is an Emmy-award winning filmmaker, cinematographer and editor based in New York City. His most recent film The Great Experiment, is an ambitious observational chronicle of one of the most volatile and perplexing eras of American history & identity. His films Union (P.O.V./Criterion Channel) and Crime + Punishment (Hulu) both won Special Jury Awards at the Sundance Film Festival and were shortlisted for the Academy Award for Best Documentary. He has collaborated closely with whistleblowers in the NYPD, dissident citizen reporters in China, Amazon worker-turned-organizers in Staten Island, journalists exposing illicit cartel-run gold mining in the Amazon rain forest and leakers in the State Department. He was story producer and an editor on the Oscar-winning short doc All The Empty Rooms (Netflix). 

His films seek to expand the aesthetic form and limits of longitudinal nonfiction filmmaking. They are visual investigations of societal phenomena, complex power structures and the fascinating individuals who challenge them. Maing is a 2026 Guggenheim Foundation Fellow, 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. 

He is currently developing nonfiction and fiction projects, a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, a frequent visiting artist and long-time collaborator with underground music group 75 Dollar Bill.