Stephen Surjik

Stephen Surjik is a Canadian film and television director mostly working in television. Born in Regina, Saskatchewan in 1960Fact|date=August 2007, he studied at the Concordia University in Montreal and received a Best Director award at the "13th Canadian Student Film & Video Festival" in 1981 for "Second story man"fn|1. After working as production designer and art director in the mid-80s, he moved on, directing for the series "Kids in the Hall". In 1993 Surjik made his feature film debut with "Wayne's World 2", starring fellow Canadian Mike Myers. He has recently teamed up again with producer Barnaby Thompson at Ealing Studios to make "I Want Candy" which was tipped to be the surprise hit of 2007 but was widely panned by critics with few positive reviews and performed poorly at the box office.

For television, he has directed films such as the 1996 "Grand Prix "Cinéma Tout Ecran" award-winningfn|2 "Little Criminals", the Emmy-nominated "Weapons of Mass Distraction", starring Ben Kingsley and Gabriel Byrne, and the CBC movie "Intelligence". His episodic credits include "Da Vinci's Inquest", "Legacy", "The Handler", "Road to Avonlea", "Due South", "X-Files" and pilots for "Bull", "Miss Miami" and "Zoe Busick: Wildcard" and "Intelligence".

Surjik on directing: "My directing style is determined by the script– not by the type of shoes that I prefer. I therefore attempt to reinforce what is on the page and I keep my tube-top fetishes to myself".fn|3

elected filmography

* "I Want Candy" (2007)
* "Intelligence" (2006-7) TV Series
* "Monk" (2006) TV series (episode "Monk Goes Blind")
* "Tripping the Wire: A Stephen Tree Mystery" (2005) (TV)
* "The Handler" 2004 TV series
* "Da Vinci's Inquest" (1998) TV Series (as Steve Surjik)
* "Weapons of Mass Distraction" (1997) (TV)
* "Little Criminals" (1995)
* "Mary Silliman's War" (1994) (TV)
* "Wayne's World 2" (1993)
* "Grand Larceny" (1991) (TV)
* "Road to Avonlea" (1989) TV series
* "The Kids in the Hall" (1988) TV series (film segments)

External links

*imdb name|id=0839660|name=Stephen Surjik
*imdb title|id=0791309|title=I Want Candy
* [http://www.iwantcandymovie.com Official Site including Trailer]
* [http://www.myspace.com/candyfiveways Candy Fiveways MySpace page]
* [http://www.skymovies.com/iwantcandy Sky Movies including video diary]
* [http://www.brightcove.tv/title.jsp?title=958789327&channel=823435648&lineup=-1 Video of Surjik directing an episode of "Intelligence"]

Notes

*fnb|1 [http://www.ffm-montreal.org/palmares/etud_1981.html Canadian Student Film & Video Festival] (Montreal World Film Festival)
*fnb|2 [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0839660/awards IMDb Awards for Stephen Surjik]
*fnb|3 [http://www.playbackmag.com/articles/magazine/19980615/21910.html Playback magazine] June 15, 1998