Costa Botes

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Costa Botes is a writer, director, and cinematographer. He is notable in New Zealand where Forgotten Silver, a documentary he co-wrote and co-directed with Peter Jackson about a fictional pioneer of the film industry, promoted considerable discussion and was proclaimed by Guinness World Records as the greatest film hoax in history.

In 1988 his short film, Stalin's Sickle, won the Grand Jury Prize at the Clement Ferrand Short Film Festival, France.

Botes was also involved with the Lord of the Rings film trilogy, first writing a detailed précis of the Lord of the Rings books to help his friend Jackson (whom he met in 1986) pitch the idea of movies to a film studio, then filming behind the scenes documentaries about the making of the films. These documentaries, edited by New Line Cinema, were released with the films August 29, 2006 in what New Line Cinema called "Limited Editions".