Interview: Film-maker Costa Botes

A common thread runs through Costa Botes’s documentaries – literally so in his latest, The Last Dogs of Winter.

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21st July, 2012

Interview

Film-maker Costa Botes is a one-man band, marching to the beat of his own drum. The course of his career – which he describes as “just hopping from boulder to boulder and trying not to fall in” – was set while he sat in the dark with his Greek immigrant parents, watching movies in the picture houses of 1960s Wellington. “I loved the Beatles films, which I saw when I was very young,” he says, “and fantasy films – incredible seeing something utterly impossible, yet there it is in front of you. “So I always related to the magic of it. Then, when I got older, I related more to ...

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