André Costantini (2020)
André Costantini is a filmmaker, editor, photographer, and musician and has also been known to write and perform. He holds a BFA in photography and painting from Mason Gross School of the Arts. In 1996 André formed Goldleaf and Big Daddy a performance duo where he wrote, sang and played the accordion. At the beginning of 2008, he was approached by Doc to Dock an NGO (part of the Clinton Global Initiative) and was commissioned to produce a series of short films in Africa on the organizations work providing much needed medical supplies with a focus on maternal health care. Later that year André was commissioned by Vincent Laforet to edit “Reverie,” the first film shot with the Canon 5D Mark II which was viewed over 1.5 million times in the first 10 days. André then went on to co-directed a feature film shot in Brazil about Bahian artist Bel Borba which was featured as a keynote film at the FICCI festival in Cartagena, Columbia. He has spent the past 15 years creating commissioned documentary and industrial films and an award-winning comedy. Most recently he has produced and directed a documentary film on Parkinson’s disease for PBS, which will premiere in April 2020.