Costa Botes

Costa Botes
Born
Konstantinos Botes

(1958-12-27)27 December 1958
Agrídia, Imbros, Turkey
DiedNovember 21, 2025(2025-11-21) (aged 66)
Newtown, New Zealand
OccupationFilmmaker

Costa Botes (27 December 1958 - 21 November 2025) was a New Zealand filmmaker. He is known for co-creating the mockumentary Forgotten Silver with Peter Jackson.

Botes directed the feature film Saving Grave, released in 1998. It was an adaptation of a 1994 play by Duncan Sarkies.

Botes created a number of documentary films including The Last Dogs of Winter (2011), Act of Kindness (2015, with Sven Pannell), Angie (2018) and When the Cows Come Home (2022).

References

  1. ↑ Swainson, Richard (20 December 2025), "Days of Future Past: Costa Botes, a filmmaker right to the end", Waikato Times
  2. ↑ Hickman, Bill (23 November 2025), Film, documentary maker Costa Botes dies after nearly a decade with cancer, Radio New Zealand
  3. ↑ Pryor, Ian (29 November 2025), Remembering Forgotten Silver: How Costa Botes co-created a NZ classic, The Spinoff
  4. ↑ Vale Costa Botes, The Directors and Editors Guild of Aotearoa New Zealand, 26 November 2025
  5. ↑ Scheib, Richard, "Saving Grace (1998)", Moira
  6. ↑ Simon, Alissa (10 September 2011). "The Last Dogs of Winter". Variety. Retrieved 14 July 2026.
  7. ↑ "Act of Kindness". FilmInk. 2017. Retrieved 14 July 2026.
  8. ↑ Angie 2018, New Zealand International Film Festival
  9. ↑ Gill, Mary Anne (5 November 2022), "Cambridge cows star on screen", Cambridge News