Movies: Costa Botes
- 1987
Bad Taste (1987)
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A team from the intergalactic fast food chain Crumb's Crunchy Delights descends on Earth, planning to make human flesh the newest taste sensation. After they wipe out the New Zealand town Kaihoro, the country’s Astro-Investigation and Defense Service...
- 1997
Forgotten Silver (1997)
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The life story of Colin McKenzie, a forgotten pioneer of international cinema who was born in rural New Zealand in 1888....
- 2003
The Quest Fulfilled: A Director's Vision (2003)
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- 2002
The Making of The Fellowship of the Ring (2002)
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A behind-the-scenes documentary on the making of "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring." Created by filmmaker Costa Botes (personally selected by Peter Jackson), this documentary uses raw footage to reveal the inside story on how the gre...
- 1989
The Ray Bradbury Theater: A Sound of Thunder (1989)
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S04E06 of "The Ray Bradbury Theater." A company provides big game hunters with expeditions to the past to kill dinosaurs. They only have one rule that's there to protect the time line: Never get off the beaten path....
- 2010
Candyman: The David Klein Story (2010)
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Candyman tells the amazing true story of David Klein, an eccentric candy inventor from LA, who came up with the concept of Jelly Belly® jellybeans. These colorful beans became a pop culture phenomenon, revolutionized the candy industry and were perso...
- 2017
The World In Your Window (2017)
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Eight-year-old Jesse lives in a twilight world of sadness and silence, squeezed into a tiny caravan with his grief stricken father. They're in limbo, existing more than living. The child intuitively understands that looking forward is harder than loo...
- 2004
The Making of the Return of the King (2004)
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A behind-the-scenes documentary on the making of "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King." Created by filmmaker Costa Botes (personally selected by Peter Jackson), this documentary uses raw footage to reveal the inside story on how the greates...
- 1998
Saving Grace (1998)
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Grace is a homeless teenager. She befriends an unemployed carpenter and he invites her to share his flat. She moves in and to her surprise a delicate relationship develops. He helps her repair her shattered self-esteem and she begins to feel loved an...
- 2003
The Making of The Two Towers (2003)
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A behind-the-scenes documentary on the making of "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers." Created by filmmaker Costa Botes (personally selected by Peter Jackson), this documentary uses raw footage to reveal the inside story on how the greatest advent...
- 2000
Behind the Bull (2000)
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Documentary about the making of Forgotten Silver....
- 1992
Valley of the Stereos (1992)
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River runs the one-man operation of Tranquility Records, recording animal sounds near his house and making music from them. The only neighboring house is for sale, and noisy Ted buys it and moves in, creating trouble for River....
- 1987
Stalin's Sickle (1987)
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It is 1962. New Zealand is emerging from the austerity of the 1950s into a new age. Daniel is a nine-year-old Catholic boy, an only child given to colourful imaginings. He discovers that an old man who passes the plate in church bears a striking rese...
- 2015
Act of Kindness (2015)
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Charting the ripple effects of real compassion, this inspiring true story follows a spirited young New Zealander’s search for the Rwandan samaritan who assisted him through a dangerous predicament over ten years before....
- 2014
The Deadly Ponies Gang (2014)
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What happens when you cross poor white trash with gangsta culture, then stick it on a horse? You get the Deadly Ponies Gang. Dwayne and Clint have been the "bestest of friends" forever. They love hip hop, and horses, but they don't like guns, and th...
- 2009
Kathmandu Blues (2009)
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A vivid first person look at the annual blues festival held in Nepal. The film features many performers but also shows the city and country, including a hair raising bus trip and a visit to the elephant breeding centre at Chitwan National Park....
- 1969
Barbed Wire Canoe (1969)
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After he makes an emergency landing at a rural airfield, a young pilot finds himself on the run from crazed locals who want to eat him....
- 2018
Angie (2018)
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Angie Meiklejohn, prominent and articulate Centrepoint survivor, is joined by her siblings in this lucid exploration of the legacy of sexual abuse, directed without a hint of sensationalism by Costa Botes....
- 2008
Nigel Gavin: A Job with the Circus (2008)
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Nigel Gavin ran away with a circus when he was fifteen. Many years later, he is still performing incredible feats. This concert recording features a mix of original compositions and stunning freeform improvisations, mostly played on Gavin's bespoke ...
- 2010
Day Trip (2010)
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A gang member wakes up one morning and decides he needs a day off. Inspired by a newspaper advertisement he impulsively decides to take a short ferry trip between islands. With his tattooed face, black leather clothing, and prominent gang patch, the ...