Stephen Kijak

He has been mak­ing crit­i­cal­ly acclaimed films for over 25 years, doc­u­ment­ing an eclec­tic playlist of musi­cal icons and leg­ends such as David Bowie, Scott Walk­er, The Rolling Stones, The Back­street Boys, Jaco Pas­to­rius, X Japan, Lynyrd Skynyrd, and Judy Gar­land. His first doc­u­men­tary series, Equal, about the decades-long fight for LGBTQ rights debuted on HBO Max in 2020 and his first nar­ra­tive fea­ture in 20 years, Shoplifters of the World, based entire­ly around the music of icon­ic British band The Smiths, was released the year after.