High Tech Low Life (16+)
USA, China, 2013, colour, 88 min.
Director: Stephen Maing
Director: Stephen Maing
High Tech Low Life follows the journey of two of China’s first citizen reporters as they travel the country - chronicling underreported news and social issues stories. Armed with laptops, cell phones, and digital cameras these formerly average citizens develop skills as independent one-man news stations while learning to navigate China’s new social media landscape and evolving censorship regulations, all while avoiding the risk of political persecution.
AWARDS
Best Documetnary – 2012 Little Rock Film Festival; Best Documentary Special Jury Award – 2012 Independent Film Festival Boston; Best Cinematography – 2012 Woods Hole Film Festival; Emerging International Filmmaker Award – 2012 Open City Docs Fest; Independent Sprit Award – 2012 EBS International Documentary Festival, South Korea.
Stephen Maing
Stephen Maing
is a New York-based filmmaker. He is a fellow of the Sundance Institute’s Documentary Film Program and a grant recipient of the MacArthur Foundation, New York State Council on the Arts, and the Independent Television Service. His filmmaking merges an interest in underrepresented individuals and communities, and the ever-evolving considerations of identity, visual language and narrative structures.
FILMOGRAPHY
Little Hearts , 2003; High Tech, Low Life, 2013; The Target, 2013; Hers to Lose, 2013; The Surrender , 2015; The Release, 2016.
USA, China, 2013, colour, 88 min.
Director: Stephen Maing
Director: Stephen Maing
High Tech Low Life follows the journey of two of China’s first citizen reporters as they travel the country - chronicling underreported news and social issues stories. Armed with laptops, cell phones, and digital cameras these formerly average citizens develop skills as independent one-man news stations while learning to navigate China’s new social media landscape and evolving censorship regulations, all while avoiding the risk of political persecution.
AWARDS
Best Documetnary – 2012 Little Rock Film Festival; Best Documentary Special Jury Award – 2012 Independent Film Festival Boston; Best Cinematography – 2012 Woods Hole Film Festival; Emerging International Filmmaker Award – 2012 Open City Docs Fest; Independent Sprit Award – 2012 EBS International Documentary Festival, South Korea.