Victorious De Costa is a native of East Flatbush, Brooklyn. who has dedicated his life to providing social service locally, nationally, and abroad. First through community programs while an undergrad at Morehouse College and now through  art.

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De Costa is the "Director of “Digging for Weldon Irvine”, a music-centered documentary that focused on the joint paradigms of Artist Identity, Mental Wellness and Suicide Awareness. Digging for Weldon Irvine starred,           Lalah Hathaway, Q-Tip, Bobbito Garcia and Jazz legends Lenny White, Bernard Wright & Billy Cobham.

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 Victorious was also a Producer of “Yusuf Hawkins: Storm Over Brooklyn”, an HBO documentary film that was spotlighted at the 20th Annual Tribeca Film Festival and nominated for an NAACP image award in 2021. He was instrumental in lobbying the City Council to co-name a street in Yusuf Hawkins' name where his mural presides. Storm Over Brooklyn was inadvertently responsible for the ousting of a veteran of NY radio station, Hot 97

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A former coach and Commissioner of Bed Stuy Sluggers, a youth sports organization, Victorious parlayed his love for both the youth and baseball into the manifestation of the TV Documentary “Jackie Robinson: Get To The Bag”which aired on Fox Sports (FS1) in 2022 and features Earvin"Magic"Johnson, Ilyasah Shabazz, Alex Rodriguez the film's  Executive Producer - Mookie Betts and groundbreaking Hip Hop narration by SKYZOO

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Upon the opening of NYC's Jackie Robinson Museum Victorious contributed the script for the community acclaimed 

Crossing the Color Line exhibit.

Upon the opening of NYC's Jackie Robinson Museum,

De Costa contributed the script for the community-acclaimed exhibit ‘Crossing the Color Line’. In Red Hook, Brooklyn, Victorious instructs a Documentary Filmmaking workshop for at-risk teenagers at Dustin Yellin’s Pioneer Works. 

In production is an independent doc about racial disparity in youth-suicide rates in America - Ring The Alarm

 

On his slate of dynamic stories are a documentary about the the legendary Motown group - The Four Tops and a reunion doc about the movie Soul Food – a project whose Executive  Producers include George Tillman Jr.  and Vivica A. Fox.  Victorious is also a DJ and Music Producer and Certified Consulting Hypnotist, helping people with personal challenges and self-discoveries.