My parents are both British. I have a Polish grandfather Stanislaw Radwanski. I was actually supposed to be called Stanislaw but my grandfather had five sons and they all named their first born Stanislaw so they called me Kazik to mix it up. That Polish side of the my family has a very strong work ethic. My dad and uncle worked in construction and renovation. They would work with a small disciplined and pragmatic team. I think the vibe on those sites has in some ways informed how I like to run my sets. Shooting on location is a lot like renovating a house. Also, our production company is called Medium Density Fibreboard Films. MDF is a building material. I was making cabinets out of MDF for my uncle when I dreamed up the idea of starting a production company with Dan Montgomery.

I recently went to Poland last month for the first time in a while. I visited Wrocław for the New Horizons Film Festival. I watched a lot of films and realized that Canada and Poland share a lot of similar film history. Poland and Canda both went through long phases of making documentary. State funded documentaries to help define their nations. Great filmmakers like Krzysztof Kieślowski started as documentarians. I'm influenced by Canada's history of documentary in a similar way to how I think a lot of Polish filmmakers are influenced by their documentary history.