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HUG ME Director - Konstantin Fam 

Director, Producer and Screenwriter 

Member of the EUROPEAN FILM ACADEMY

Raised 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.

Meet the team

We are a team of professionals and young creative activists untied to make a difference through powerful and transformative stories

Konstantin 

Fam

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Irina Isaeva 

Fam

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Valentina 

Castellani-Quinn

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Mitchell 

Block

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Max 

Onopriienko

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Natalya

 Vorozhbit

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Jonathan 

Brook

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Dmytro 

Gordon

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Tom 

Nguyen

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Sofiia

Onopriienko

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Ksenia 

Filatova

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Alex 

Falcon

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Ilya 

Moskalenko

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Sofia 

Brook

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If the mission of our film is close to your heart, you are interested in creating movies or have a unique experience and energy beneficial for the project, please join us.