Stephen Kijak Archives

Stephen Kijaks' Shoplifters of the World is the kind of coming-of-age story that works only if you're invested in the characters A microcosm of the 80s, the film takes place in 1987, and a group of friends just found out their favorite band, English rockers the Smiths, broke up Obviously, it makes a limited compelling[...]

I spoke to director Stephen Kijak about how the film came together. Image courtesy of RLJE Films. "The inspiration behind Shoplifters of the World is based around the front of a pack of characters that I had been toying with my friends and me in the new wave…kind of like a new wave summer in the 80s,"[...]