Directing
Costa Botes
1960 · New Zealand
30 films
Bio
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.
Filmography
Bad Taste
3rd Class Alien
Day Trip
Producer
Voice
Cinematography
The Making of 'The Fellowship of the Ring'
Camera Operator
Forgotten Silver
Self
The Making of 'The Two Towers'
Director
The Quest Fulfilled: A Director's Vision
Cinematography
The Making of 'The Return of the King'
Director
Daytime Tiger
Director
The Ray Bradbury Theater: A Sound of Thunder
Director
Boys On Film 20: Heaven Can Wait
Writer
Stalin's Sickle
Writer