Directing
Stephen T. Maing
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 O…
Known For
All the Empty Rooms · 2025All the Empty Rooms
★ 7.22025
MovieDocumentary
A journalist and a photographer set out to memorialize the bedrooms left behind by children killed in school shootings.
Emergent City · 2024Emergent City
★ 8.02024
MovieDocumentary
When global developers purchase Industry City — a series of connected industrial buildings within a primarily immigrant, working class community in Brooklyn — conflicting views draw battlelines between residents, city officials and master planners as the fate of the city and contemporary urban development hangs in the balance.
Local One · 2025Local One
2025
MovieDocumentary
An exploration into the first days of the strike at two Amazon warehouses in New York City.
Tie a Yellow Ribbon · 2007Tie a Yellow Ribbon
★ 7.22007
MovieDrama
A rare view into the emotionally complex interior of young Asian American women, featuring a Korean adoptee who needs to come to terms with her damaged past.
Basic EmotionsBasic Emotions
★ 10.0
Movie
The stories of four Manhattan roommates: Alicia, a flighty and seductive artist; John, an accountant and trapped dreamer; Dahlia, a no-nonsense investment banker and Ethan, a politically motivated writer.
Look into My Eyes · 2024Look into My Eyes
★ 5.42024
MovieDocumentary
A group of New York City psychics conduct deeply intimate readings for their clients, revealing a kaleidoscope of loneliness, connection, and healing.
Union · 2024Union
★ 7.72024
MovieDocumentary
Up against one of the most powerful companies on the planet, a group of Amazon workers embark on an unprecedented campaign to unionize their warehouse in Staten Island, New York.
Nothing Is Truer than Truth · 2018Nothing Is Truer than Truth
★ 3.52018
MovieDocumentaryHistory
NOTHING IS TRUER THAN TRUTH is a feature length documentary about Edward de Vere, Seventeenth Earl of Oxford, A-list party boy on the continental circuit, who spent a year and a half in Venice and traveling in Europe, learning about commedia dell'arte and collecting the experiences that would become the Shakespeare plays. Shot in Venice, Verona, Mantua, Padua, and Brenta, the film ventures to actual sites De Vere visited in 1575-76, including the settings for THE MERCHANT OF VENICE, OTHELLO, ROMEO & JULIET, and TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA. The film features renowned Shakespeare scholars, actors, and directors, including Sir Derek Jacobi, Mark Rylance, Tina Packer, and Diane Paulus, and argues that De Vere's bisexuality is the reason for the pseudonym Shake-speare.
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