From the sixteen, Costa has been forming the list of projects he would like to implement. In 2008, he became the second director and screenwriter of the comedy club, Women's League, having worked for two seasons. After this, Konstantin acted as a director of 10 episodes sketch show "Caution: Children!" His love to the sketches Konstantin refers to the manifestation of his national identity. Willing to develop himself as a filmmaker, he entered the
NYFA, took all of the film production courses.
"Hedgehog" Education ended with 13-week production period, during which a short film based on the story of
Grigori Gorin was shot. In the center of the story there is a boy, who changed a winning lottery ticket on the Hedgehog. Boy's father was trying to return the ticket by all means. The story gained the festival success, and then has been invited to many showings. It won the Grand Prix Festival in São Paulo in Brazil. The movie was taken to the Short Film Corner program in
Cannes.
"Witnesses" "Witnesses" is the first feature film in former Soviet Union produced in memory of the
Holocaust victims.
Witnesses is the historical drama that consists of three short films
Shoes,
Brutus and
Violin united by the idea to be produced in memory of the greatest tragedy of the 20th century. The project is being elaborated in the memory of the perished people because there is hardly a single Jewish family that didn't lose their loved ones on the run of the mass destruction in the 20th-century catastrophe. The key purpose of the project is to spread the knowledge about the history and to remind the young generation of the tragedy in order to prevent it in the future.
"Shoes" The film "Shoes" is the first novel of
the trilogy "Witnesses". "Witnesses" is the first feature film in former Soviet Union produced in memory of the
Holocaust victims. During the filming Costa has spent four months in Europe.
SHOES traces the personal history of a Jewish girl from the point of view of a pair of red shoes. Starting from the shop window where the shoes were purchased and ending at a mountain of discarded shoes of the victims, the viewer witnesses the effects of the tragedy of fascism. The film is the winner of many awards and film festivals, it is invited to the Visual Centre
Yad Vashem (Israel), along with the outstanding films about the Holocaust made by
Spielberg,
Polanski,
Benigni. During the 8th International
Video Festival Empire (Italy) the film awarded the Gran Prix Silver reel of film as one of the most important in cultural and education spheres. This festival is held under the patronage of
UNESCO and listed the 13 most important festivals in the world that support the cultural heritage and education. The festival presents 721 works from 52 countries. Recently Shoes has been qualified for 2013
Academy Award consideration.
"Brutus" "Brutus" continues concept of
The trilogy "Witnesses" and tells us story of the
Holocaust through the eyes of a German Shepherd dog Brutus. The
Nuremberg Laws have separated the dog with his favorite mistress, Jewish woman. In the process of training and taming Brutus becomes a concentration camp beast-killer. The film is based on a novel of a Czech writer
Ludvik Ashkenazy. Filmmakers from Russia, Romania, Israel, the United States, Moldova, Belarus and the Czech Republic participated in the production. The main roles in the film were performed by
Oksana Fandera,
Filipp Yankovsky, Vladimir Koshevoy and Anna Churina. The Russian premiere of the film took place in the framework of the competition program
Moscow International Film Festival in the summer of 2016. Film was longlisted to the 89th Academy Awards by
Academy Award for Live Action Short Film and nominated on
The Golden Eagle Award of
National Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences of Russia "Violin" Filming locations were situated in Moscow, New York, Belarus, the Czech Republic and Israel. The main roles were performed by Lenn Kudryavitsky, Oksana Fandera, Vladimir Koshevoi, Vyacheslav Chepurchenko,
Mikhail Gorevoy and others. The film was premiered in the summer of 2017.
"Kaddish" In this 2019 film, the testament of a former concentration camp prisoner confronts and turns the lives of two young people from different worlds around, shedding light on the tragic history of their family. Filming locations were situated in
Moscow,
Prague,
New York,
Jerusalem, and
Belarus.
Other activity In 2015, Konstantin acted as president of the jury at the
1st Moscow Jewish Film Festival. Subsequently, he joined the team of the festival's creators and from 2016 to 2021 he held the position of one of the film festival's producers. ==Awards and nominations==