Costa Botes
Personal Info
Know For
Directing
Gender
Male
Birthday
1960-12-27 (65 years old)
Place of Birth
New Zealand
Also known As
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Costa Botes
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 Valladolid, Asia-Pacific, and Fantasporto Film Festivals. He documented the making of Peter Jackson’s epic trilogy Lord of the Rings trilogy from 1999...
Acting
1987
as 3rd Class Alien
1997
as Self
2000
as Himself
2012
as Self
Production
1997
as Director
1997
as Writer
2002
as Camera Operator
2010
as Director
-
2012
as Director
2022
as Director
2022
as Cinematography
2017
as Writer
2017
as Executive Producer
2020
as Writer
1987
as Writer
1987
as Producer
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as Writer
2015
as Director
2000
as Director
1998
as Director
1989
as Director
2014
as Editor
1992
as Writer
2003
as Cinematography
2004
as Director
2004
as Producer
2018
as Director
2010
as Camera Operator
2010
as Sound
2010
as Producer
2010
as Editor
1987
as Director
1988
as Director
2006
2008
as Director
2009
as Director
2008
as Director
2010
as Director
2003
as Producer
2002
as Producer
2003
as Director
2002
as Director
1992
as Story
2012
as Cinematography
2012
as Editor
2012
as Producer
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