Stans

Stans (2025) is a music documentary you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Steven Leckart over twelve years of filming. It doesn't retrace Eminem's career or inventory his albums. It follows the fans — people who had his lyrics tattooed on their skin, who wrote thousands of letters, who say a specific track on a specific record is the reason they're still here.

Eminem appears alongside Dr. Dre, Ed Sheeran, Elton John, LL Cool J, Adam Sandler, Carson Daly and Jimmy Iovine. Their accounts cut between the inner industry and the people the music actually reached. The film keeps returning to a question that doesn't resolve cleanly: what separates fandom from dependency, and does that line matter if the music works?

The word "stan" entered everyday English from Eminem's 2000 track about an obsessive fan who took it too far. Twelve years of access made something more unsettling and more honest than most artist documentaries allow themselves to be. Stream Stans online on iFILM.