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Apr 28, 2021 Here's today's feel-good story: The 2021 Oscar winner for Best Documentary Feature "My Octopus Teacher" is the perfect antidote for our pandemic year. The film, which explores the lengths a man will go to in order to build a relationship with an octopus just off of the tip of South Africa, has impacted people in ways that nobody thought possible. Each day for a year, Craig Foster went free diving without a wetsuit or scuba equipment in the frigid water of the Great African Sea Forest to visit "her" and many have been touched by the film's subject matter. Director Pippa Ehrlich sa...

Unusual true love story of a human and an octopus wins Oscar! ​ Wed, Apr 28 2021 16:42 IST | ​ 7 Views   Unusual true love story of a human and an octopus wins Oscar!.. Image Source: IANS News New Delhi, April 28: The heart-warming story of the human-octopus friendship My Octopus Teacher documentary made it to the hearts of the Oscar Jury as it won the Best Documentary at the 93rd Academy Awards at Los Angeles. The documentary directed by Pippa Ehrlich and James Reed, brings on screen the true story of friendship between the film-maker and diver Craig Foster and an octopus, when he de...

Apr 28, 2021 Here's today's feel-good story: The 2021 Oscar winner for Best Documentary Feature "My Octopus Teacher" is the perfect antidote for our pandemic year. The film, which explores the lengths a man will go to in order to build a relationship with an octopus just off of the tip of South Africa, has impacted people in ways that nobody thought possible. Each day for a year, Craig Foster went free diving without a wetsuit or scuba equipment in the frigid water of the Great African Sea Forest to visit "her" and many have been touched by the film's subject matter. Director Pippa Ehrlich sa...

Ramaphosa lauds South African documentary for win at Oscars 2021 Ramaphosa lauds South African documentary for win at Oscars 2021 JOHANNESBURG, Apr 28: South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has lauded the documentary ‘My Octopus Teacher’ which has won an Oscar for Best Documentary Feature, saying it has opened a window into the natural beauty and diversity of the country’s oceans and marine ecosystems. “My Octopus Teacher”, which has Indian filmmaker Swati Thiyagarajan as associate producer and production manager, won the best documentary feature at the Oscars, Producers Pippa Eh...

It’s Time to Bring an Octopus Into Your Family Vogue 4/28/2021 In My Octopus Teacher, a diver wades into freezing waves off the coast of South Africa day after day, flippering through a kelp forest to visit an octopus in her underwater home. Over the course of a year, he gets to know her. She extends one tentacled arm towards his hand, and eventually rests against his chest. The diver, filmmaker Craig Foster, captures her character, highlighting the curiosity and ingenuity of the species as a whole. “In many ways this really is a tiny, personal story that played out in a seaforest at t...