Framing our March 7-14 film series Heimat NOW, we are asking filmmakers from different places What's your #SoundOfHeimat. Here is what Toronto indie filmmaker Kazik Radwanski, who just pondered in the Globe & Mail that the secret to Canadian film success lies in lentils & luck, pitched in from his hyper-local perspective of living and working in the city's west end:"There’s a scene in my latest film HOW HEAVY THIS HAMMER where the protagonist, Erwin, who has recently separated from his wife, shows his new place to his two sons. He chooses to first take them to the roof, pulling them close so he can point out the local landmarks: Ali Baba’s, Coffee Time and Bloor Street West. Since I am an independent filmmaker working with scarce resources, Erwin’s apartment in my fictional film is of course my literal home in real life.
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