Key biography facts

• Education. A native of Leningrad (now St. Petersburg), he studied and mastered his craft at the city’s most prestigious art schools – St. Petersburg Repin Academy of Arts and St. Petersburg Stieglitz State Academy of Art and Design;

• Career. Konstantin created his first cartoon in 1988 and ever since, he has worked as a screenwriter, artist, animator, director, and even voice actor.

• Awards & recognition. Over his career, Konstantin has made a name for himself as a respected filmmaker, with multiple popular titles in his portfolio, several national awards (including for his contribution to Russian animation) and not one, but now three Oscar nominations.

His first nomination was for the short film Lavatory – Lovestory; this is a sketched visual love story of a single middle-aged lavatory attendant who after she receives a surprise bouquet of flowers tries to figure out who her secret admirer is.

The second Oscar nod came for We Can't Live Without Cosmos – a colored hand-drawn short about two lifelong friends who have dreamed of becoming astronauts; their shared dream, however, comes true only for one of them. The film uses the cosmic background to reflect on the topics of friendship and loneliness.

Ten years later, in 2026, Konstantin was once again nominated for an Oscar, this time for his work The Three Sisters, which he, as his secret project, submitted under a pseudonym to ensure the jury’s objectivity. This is a story of three women living on a remote island; their lives change after they’re forced to rent out one of their houses because of their financial struggles. The film is inspired by Montenegro folklore – and took around six years in production.

• Little Longnose (2003) – an adaptation of a Wilhelm Hauff fairy tale about a pure-hearted boy who gets turned into a dwarf after he refused to do a favor for the evil witch;

• The Three Bogatyrs franchise – the series follows the adventures of the three most popular heroes of Russian folklore, also known as bogatyrs, who travel the world and help those in need. Out of the entire franchise, Bronzit’s filmography features several movies: Alyosha Popovich and Tugarin the Serpent (2004), Ivan Tsarevich and the Gray Wolf 2 (2013), and some others;

• The Moonzy franchise – the story revolves around a small, fluffy, Moon-born creature as he comes to the Earth and befriends the local animals; Konstantin acted in multiple roles for the franchise’s series and as a director and screenwriter for one of the movies.