Stephen Kijak
American filmmaker
Stephen Kijak (; born 3 October 1969) is an American film director. He is known for films about music and musicians, most notably the feature documentaries Scott Walker – 30 Century Man (2006), Stones in Exile (2010), We Are X (2016), If I Leave Here Tomorrow (2018), and Sid & Judy (2019). His collaborators and subjects include such musical legends and icons as David Bowie, Scott Walker, The Rolling Stones, Jaco Pastorius, Rob Trujillo, Backstreet Boys, X Japan, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Judy Garland, and The Smiths.
Career
Kijak studied with the film scholar and John Cassavetes expert Ray Carney, as well as the late Mel Howard at Boston University's College of Communication. He wrote, directed and produced his debut feature film Never Met Picasso (1996) which starred Margot Kidder, Alexis Arquette and Don McKellar (with music by Kristin Hersh). It won awards for both Best Screenplay and Best Actor (for Arquette) at the 1997 Outfest film festival. He went on to make the documentary Cinemania (2002), a look at New York City’s manic-obsessive film buffs in collaboration with German film director Angela Christlieb. The film was shown at over 25 film festivals worldwide including Locarno International Film Festival, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Edinburgh International Film Festival, SXSW, Tribeca Film Festival, Melbourne International Film Festival, Seattle International Film Festival, Sheffield Documentary Festival, and the Hamptons International Film Festival where it won the Golden Starfish Jury Award for Best Documentary. Cinemania grew out of a short film Kijak made called Movie Madness: The Passion of Jack Angstreich for John Pierson's show Split Screen that ran on IFC.
His next film was a documentary on musician Scott Walker. The film, titled Scott Walker - 30 Century Man was executive produced by David Bowie, and featured Radiohead, Brian Eno, Sting, Damon Albarn and Jarvis Cocker, and provided a look inside Scott Walker’s creative process over a 40-year career as Walker was completing work on his first album in a decade, The Drift.
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