The Great Experiment
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Logline
Two hundred and twenty-seven years after George Washington remarked on America as ”the last great experiment," an assembly of diverse documentary filmmakers from around the country consider a new experiment.
Stephen Maing
Director/Producer/Editor/Co-Cinematographer
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.
Eric Daniel Metzgar
Director/Producer/Editor/Co-Cinematographer
Eric Daniel Metzgar is an Emmy Award winning filmmaker and Sundance Documentary Lab Fellow. He directed, shot and edited REPORTER about New York Times journalist Nick Kristof, which premiered at Sundance, aired on HBO, and was nominated for an Emmy Award. He also directed, shot and edited LIFE.SUPPORT.MUSIC., which was broadcast on POV, and THE CHANCES OF THE WORLD CHANGING, which was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award and broadcast on POV. Metzgar also edited and produced CRIME + PUNISHMENT (Emmy Winner, Sundance, Hulu), and edited GIVE UP TOMORROW (Emmy nominated, POV) and ALMOST SUNRISE (Emmy nominated, POV).
Rachel Traub
Producer
Rachel Traub is the Director of Development at Concordia Studio, launched by Davis Guggenheim to focus on documentary storytelling, production, and finance.Previously, she served as VP of Non-Fiction at AGC Studios, where she oversaw the production, finance, and international sales of multiple feature documentaries, including 3 projects with CNN Films. Prior to that Traub consulted for Topic Studios non-fiction team, and formerly oversaw feature film development/co-productions at Warrior Poets. where she ushered numerous feature documentaries and non-fiction series through development, production and post, including NO MAN’S LAND (Tribeca Film Festival 2017) and THE DEVIL WE KNOW (Sundance 2018).