Team
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HUG ME Director - Konstantin Fam
Director, Producer and Screenwriter
Member of the EUROPEAN FILM ACADEMYRaised in an ethnically diverse family, he grew up in Ukraine and then lived in different countries, including Georgia, Russia, Belarus, Czech Republic, and the USA, where he lives now. Given his multinational mindset, Fam’s professional art focuses on peace, justice and humanitarian values.
Since 2011, he has been working on Holocaust studies. As a producer and director he has created several movies, including Shoes, Witnesses, Kaddish, Room 18 and Achrome. Konstantin’s films were shown at top-ranked professional forums, such as Cannes, Berlin, Venice, and Rotterdam film festivals, and some were invited for the Oscars / Academy Awards consideration.
Konstantin is the creator of the Witnesses educational project for teachers and historians, created in collaboration with the Holocaust Foundation. The Shoes movie is included in the educational program of Yad Vashem, iWitness by USC Shoah Foundation and Ukrainian history textbooks as a didactic material.
Since 2015, Konstantin has been a co-founder and producer of the Moscow, Saint-Petersburg, Ekaterinburg and Odessa Jewish Film Festivals.
Since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, he has been involved in multiple charitable projects.
Happily married to Irina Isaeva. Father of 6 children.
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