Costa Botes
Directing · Writer · Director · Camera Operator
Born Dec 27, 1960 · New Zealand
Active 1985–present
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.
Filmography
Bad Taste (1987) — 3rd Class AlienForgotten Silver (1997) — Writer · DirectorThe Making of 'The Fellowship of the Ring' (2006) — Camera Operator · Producer · DirectorThe Making of 'The Return of the King' (2006) — Director · ProducerThe Ray Bradbury Theater (1985) — DirectorThe Making of 'The Two Towers' (2006) — Producer · DirectorThe Tribe (1999) — DirectorVoice (2025) — CinematographyCandyman: The David Klein Story (2010) — Director · Producer · Camera Operator · Editor · SoundThe World In Your Window (2017) — Writer · Executive ProducerValley of the Stereos (1992) — Writer · StoryBehind the Bull (2000) — DirectorDay Trip (2010) — Producer · Screenplay · WriterThe Quest Fulfilled: A Director's Vision (2003) — CinematographySaving Grace (1998) — DirectorBoys On Film 20: Heaven Can Wait (2020) — WriterAngie (2018) — DirectorThe Making of The Lord of the Rings Collection — DirectorThe Last Dogs of Winter (2012) — Director · Cinematography · Editor · ProducerWhen the Cows Come Home (2022) — Director · CinematographyStalin's Sickle (1987) — Producer · Writer · DirectorBarbed Wire Canoe — WriterAct of Kindness (2015) — DirectorThe Ray Bradbury Theater: A Sound of Thunder (1989) — Director