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Costa Botes

Costa Botes

CrewDirectorWriterEditorActor Dec 27 (age 65) New Zealand 1985–2025 (40 year career)
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Biography

Costa Botes has been an independent film-maker in New Zealand since the early 1980s. His short film Stalin’s Sickle won the jury prize at the Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival in 1988. Forgotten Silver, a mock-documentary co-written & co-directed with Peter Jackson in 1995 created a national sensation in 1995. It won a special critics prize at the Venice Film Festival, and has become a cult favourite worldwide. Costa’s first feature film, Saving Grace (1997), was selected for competition at …

Known For

Bad Taste
Film

Bad Taste

3rd Class Alien
Forgotten Silver
Film

Forgotten Silver

Self
The Ray Bradbury Theater
Film

The Ray Bradbury Theater

Director
The Making of 'The Fellowship of the Ring'
Film

The Making of 'The Fellowship of the Ring'

Camera Operator
The Tribe
Film

The Tribe

Director
The Making of 'The Return of the King'
Film

The Making of 'The Return of the King'

Director
The Making of 'The Two Towers'
Film

The Making of 'The Two Towers'

Producer
Candyman: The David Klein Story
Film

Candyman: The David Klein Story

Director

Filmography

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