High Tech, Low Life
TFI Suppport
Tribeca All Access® 2009
Logline
Truth and potential fame motivates a young vegetable seller to become one of china’s first citizen reporters, covering china’s controversial and censored news stories via his blog, digital camera, and blackberry.
Stephen Maing
Director, Producer
Stephen Maing is a Brooklyn-based Emmy Award-winning filmmaker and cinematographer. His feature documentary, HIGH TECH, LOW LIFE, about two of mainland China’s first citizen reporters, aired nationally on P.O.V. His short film THE SURRENDER produced with Field of Vision was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Short Documentary and received a World Press Photo Award. His most recent film, CRIME + PUNISHMENT, a visually immersive account of whistleblower cops in NYC, was shortlisted for an Oscar and received an Emmy Award for Outstanding Social Issue Documentary. Stephen is a Sundance Institute Fellow and recipient of the IDA’s Courage Under Fire award.