KONSTANTINA PALLI CV
Born in Athens, Greece in 1973, Konstantina Palli is a Greek actress and director, both for the cinema and theatre.
In 1992 she entered the Academy of Theatrical Arts (GITIS -RATI) in Moscow, Russia, Drama Faculty with the Art Director V.A. Andreev and graduated in 1996.
After graduating, Konstantina taught drama at the Athens Supreme Drama School of Diomidis Fotiadis and acted in various theatre companies. Performances included: Romeo and Julliet, Mandragor, Martirima, The Executors, Money Rush, The Thief, and others.
From 2000-2006, she worked in Heraklion, Crete as a drama teacher and director with the Theatrical Workshop at the Rehabilitation Center Ariadni and teached drama to Afghani refugees at the Shelter for the protection of unaccompanied minors in Anogeia – Crete. In 2007, she founded the theatre group, Sotto Voce, for which she wrote and directed several plays that earned international acclaim.
Her 2008 performance of Medea (based on Jean Anouilh and Euripides tragedy) ran in several international theatre festivals in Russia and Europe, winning “One of the Eight Best Monologue Performances of the Year” (The Baltic House Theatre) and “Achievement in Ancient Drama Bitola” (North Macedonia).
Due to Medea’s success, the Dostoevsky Museum in St. Petersburg requested Konstantina to write and direct Dream of a Ridiculous Man, based on the novel of Dostoevsky. It was the first Greek play to premiere at this museum and received the award for Best Dramaturgy at Bitola's Monodrama Festival. It played for several years in Crete.
Konstantina Palli owns a theatrical laboratory named “Syniho” in which she teaches drama and develops theatrical projects in a nonprofit base. Also, she's the founder and the director of the inlcusive Theatrical group "Roda" which is based in Heraklion for the past three years.
Just after the first wave of the pandemic crisis, in May 2020, Konstantina founded the theatrical company Queen Bees, together with her former students of Drama School “NOTOS”. Their first performance “Aidoiologimata” was based on “Vagina’s Monologues” by Eve Ensler and had been shown in Crete. Their second performance "La Poupe" by Vangelis Hadjiyannidis has been released in November, 2022. Their performance "Finist, the bright Falcon" by Svetlana Petriychuk, an award winning Russian who has been imprisoned by the Putin's regime for this actual play was released in April, 2024.
Konstantina also works as a vocal trainer at Lab Music Education in Heraklion, which is a partner of Codarts Music University of Rotterdam. She teaches contemporary vocals and has dozens of music students.
Konstantina teached Stanislavski’s method in the drama school “NOTOS” in Heraklion for several years. She has led dozens of seminars on drama and filmmaking and is the founder of the International Film Festival, IndieCrete. She directs films, commercials, documentaries and music videos for Studio Rosso, a film company she owns together with her Russian husband, Nickolay Dorozhkin, filmmaker and cinematographer.
Studio Rosso has produced highly successful short films since 2014 with its five film currently in post-production. Diminished (2014) was invited to be screened at the Cannes Film Festival and won a variety of awards in the international film festival circuit, including best leading actress, best original script, best film (audience award), and best original music.
FILMOGRAPHY
Studio Rosso is owned by Konstantina Palli (writer, director, actor) and Nickolay Dorozhkin (cinematographer, editor)
DIMINISHED (2014), a short film https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BrW_RWPTL4
· Best Film Award, Best Original Script Award, Best Leading Actress Award, Best Original Music Award: International Thessaloniki’s Film Festival “FILME”
· “Bronze Remi” Award: 49th Houston WorldFest.
· Best Film – Audience Award: Athens Digital Film Festival
· Official Selection at Clermont Ferrant Film Festival, BornShort Film Festival, Balkan Film Food Festival, 61 Film Festival of Minnesota, San Francisco Greek Film Festival and others.
· Included in the Permanent Film Catalogue Aviff of Cannes Film Festival.
ASPHYXIATION (2016) Social Commercial about domestic violence.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDIzizy8qIE
Asphyxiation became the most popular video in Greece according to Lifo Free Press Magazine.
NEIGHBORS (2017), a short film https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zm7oPBKBKHg&t=30s
· Best Original Music Score: Athen’s Digital Film Festival
· Best Editing at 12Months Film Festival of Romania
· Official Selection at Select Respect Film Festival, Tetovo Film Festival, Clermont Ferrant Film Market
HAPPY THINKING CHRISTMAS (2019) Social commercial to raise awareness about how we are destroying our planet. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5ttI5MT4K0&t=1s
Spinalonga (2020) – Short documentary about the history of the iconic island Spinalonga https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykSwqALvytw&t=42s&ab_channel=EuropeDirectRegionofCrete
RUMOR HAS IT (2020) – Short Comedy Film produced during the corona virus lockdown in Greece. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FybTzCizANI&t=12s
Official Selection among more than 5000 films in Zeitimpuls Film Festival (Vienna – 2020)
JUST WORLD (2021) – Short drama film, just released. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gla2G_09e2w&ab_channel=NickolayDorozhkin
RULES OF HOSPITALITY (2021) - Short comedy film is in Post Production and scheduled to premiere in December of 2021. You can watch the trailer here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ruu7HjEVtKg&t=5s
SACRED CRAFT- WEAVERS OF CRETE - (From Queen Penelope to Arachne - the weaver and spinner) – Full length documentary – a feministic approach to traditional weaving. You can watch the trailer here: https://youtu.be/yuBbO8YpOE0?si=T0_16onoyMBV7348
PARENT - TEACHER ASSOCIATION 2025 (short comedy) - To be released
