STEF is a freelance director working with global sports, powersports, and athleisure brands on visuals that are gritty, dynamic and rooted in movement.
I'm a director whose work lives in the physical: sport, powersport, active apparel, and the outdoors. I carry a certain grit into everything I make, work rooted in movement, sweat, and touch. It pulls me toward subjects that are tactile and earned, and toward brands made to move.

I came to directing after more than a decade as a creative in global ad agencies, a background that still shapes how I see a story.

Friendly. 
Bilingual. 
O-1 Visa. 
No food allergies.
Can lift heavy things.


Love letters & hate mail:
STEF@STEFANSZARY.COM

Pictures of my kids:
INSTAGRAM


Recognition:

LLB - “Canada’s Brightest Rising Directors, 2025”

Cannes Lions 
D&AD
CLIOS
ADCC
LIA
Behance
WARC 
IDÉA 
Adage 
Applied Arts Magazine
Communication Arts 
Marketing Mag
Strategy Mag
BBC 
Four Wheeler Magazine
LaPresse
Le Devoir
Globe & Mail