Prolific documentary and film-maker Costa Botes – who found fame creating mockumentary Forgotten Silver alongside Sir Peter Jackson – has died after living with cancer for nearly a decade.

Former Massey University Media Studies lecturer Costa Botes sadly passed away on 21 November after a long and courageous battle with cancer. Mr Botes was influential in the film industry and helped ...

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 ...

A film with a script written by Wellington film-maker Costa Botes who teaches screen writing and documentary making at Massey's Wellington campus has won best short film at a Japanese film festival. A ...

Costa Botes pictured when he was in Canada shooting The Last Dogs of Winter, a documentarty about Kiwi former actor Caleb Ross who went to Manitoba and got involved in breeding Canadian Inuit dogs.

Prolific documentary and filmmaker Costa Botes - who found fame creating mockumentary Forgotten Silver alongside Peter Jackson - has died after living with cancer for nearly a decade. Botes won ...