Costa Botes

Costa Botes

Directing

Birthday

1960/12/27 (64 years old)

Gender

Male

Place of Birth

New Zealand

Also know as

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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 ...Read more

Acting
Bad Taste
6.3

(1987) Bad Taste

as 3rd Class Alien

Forgotten Silver
7.2

(1997) Forgotten Silver

as Self

Behind the Bull
0.0

(2000) Behind the Bull

as Himself

The Last Dogs of Winter
0.0

(2012) The Last Dogs of Winter

as Self