Costa Botes

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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 Valladolid, Asia-Pacific, and Fantasporto Film Festivals. He documented the making of Peter Jackson’…

  • Directing
  • Born 27 December 1960 (age 65)
  • New Zealand
  • 32 credits

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Most-watched Costa Botes films currently: The Making of 'The Return of the King' (2004), Bad Taste (1987), The Making of 'The Two Towers' (2003), Forgotten Silver (1997), The Making of 'The Fellowship of the Ring' (2002).

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Selected TV credits: The Tribe (1999), The Ray Bradbury Theater (1985).

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