Stephen Surjik

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Stephen Surjik is a Canadian film and television director mostly working in television. Born in Regina, Saskatchewan in 1960^{[citation needed]}, 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"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-winning² 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".³