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“My Octopus Teacher” wins Africa’s only Oscar at historic night

“My Octopus Teacher” wins Africa’s only Oscar at historic night

SOUTH Africa's first ever Netflix original documentary, "My Octopus Teacher", has won an Oscar. The film, directed by Pippa Ehrlich and James Reed, won in a strongly contested category at the 93rd Academy Awards held in Los Angeles today. In her acceptance speech, Ehrlich said: In many ways this really is a tiny personal story that played out in a seaforust at the very tip of Africa, but on a more universal level I hope that it provided a glimpse of a different type of relationship between human beings and the natural world." "Nomadland", the story of van dwellers in…
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Human-octopus love story up for an Oscar

Human-octopus love story up for an Oscar

ALICIA POWELL PETS can easily bond with humans, but when a wild octopus befriends a diver and becomes his life coach, that true story scores a best documentary nomination for this Sunday's Oscars. Ten years in the making, "My Octopus Teacher" began as a personal video project by South African filmmaker Craig Foster to rekindle his connection with nature by observing an inquisitive female mollusc while free-diving near Cape Town. She shared with him her secret life in an underwater kelp forest every day for a year before her death after mating and laying eggs, and the pair developed a…
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