Kazik Radwanski

Kazik Radwanski is a Canadian director and screenwriter He is known for his low budget independent films including How Heavy This Hammer 2015 which has screened at festivals around the world His early short films have been cited as part of the New Canadian Cinema movement Before transitioning into feature films with his directorial debut Tower 2012 Radwanski wrote and directed several awardwinning short films including Assault 2007 Princess Margaret Blvd 2008 Out in That Deep Blue Sea 2009 and Green Crayons 2010 all of which screened at film festivals around the world most notably in Edinburgh Melbourne and Berlin Radwanskis first feature Tower made its world premiere at the 2012 Locarno Film Festival9 followed by its North American premiere at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival It had a long festival run screening at many festivals including the Viennale the New DirectorsNew Films Festival hosted by Film Society of Lincoln Center and the Museum of Modern Art The film was met with critical acclaim upon its release Mark Peranson editor of Cinema Scope Magazine named it One of the years most jarring and accomplished debuts The Wall Street Journal proclaimed it as thoroughly compelling juxtaposing idiosyncratic camerawork with raw insight into the sort of person everyone knows Eric Kohn of IndieWire described the protagonist as an awkward loner made mesmerizing and Scott Foundas for the Village Voice described it as a Sisyphus for the Aspergers era NOW Magazine named Tower one of the Top 25 Toronto Films of all time From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia