December
5,
2018
Los
Angeles
The
Courage
Under
Fire
Award
from
the
International
Documentary
Association
honors
documentary
filmmaker
Stephen
Maing,
at
the
IDA's
annual
awards,
December
8
in
Los
Angeles.
Maing
is
honored
for
his
explosive
documentary
exposing
the
New
York
police
department's
racially
discriminatory
policing
practices.
A
class
action
suit
by
twelve
minority
whistleblower
officers
revealed
the
NYPD's
practice
of
pressuring
minority
officers
to
issue
predetermined
numbers
of
arrests
and
summonses
per
month,
often
in
communities
of
color
it
classified
as
'high
crime.'
Stephen
Maing
is
an
Emmy-nominated,
Brooklyn-based
filmmaker.
His
2012
feature
documentary, High
Tech,
Low
Life,
chronicled
the
gripping
story
of
two
of
China's
first
dissident
citizen-journalists
fighting
state-monitored
censorship,
and
was
broadcast
nationally
on
PBS.
His
short
film The
Surrender,
produced
with
Academy
Award
winner
Laura
Poitras,
documented
State
Department
intelligence
analyst
Stephen
Kim's
harsh
prosecution
under
the
Espionage
Act,
and
was
nominated
for
an
Emmy
Award
for
Outstanding
Short
Documentary.
He
has
directed
numerous
films
for Time
Magazine, The
Nation, The
New
York
Times,
The
Intercept,
PBS
and
Field
of
Vision;
his New
York
Times
Op-Docs documentary, Hers
to
Lose,
was
awarded
a
World
Press
Photo
Award
for
Long
Features.