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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...

South Africa's 'My Octopus Teacher' wins at the Oscars Updated East Coast Radio iStock Earlier this year, South African documentary ‘My Octopus Teacher’ made its debut on global streaming service Netflix to an incredible response. After nabbing a string of awards over the past few weeks, the documentary hit it big as it took home the Academy Award for Best Documentary Film on Monday morning. The film, which became the first Netflix original documentary to come out of South Africa, depicts the special bond between an octopus and filmmaker Craig Foster in the waters of False Bay and tugg...

MY OCTOPUS TEACHER WINS OSCAR, AFTER BAFTA AWARD The unorthodox Oscars ceremony was moved from a Hollywood theater to a glammed-up downtown train station to abide by strict Covid-19 protocols, and reunited Tinseltown A-listers for the first time in more than a year. However, despite the slightly more modest surroundings, the stage was set perfectly for the crew of My Octopus Teacher. Pippa Ehrlich accepted the award overnight, paying tribute to her fellow crew members and “the South Africans watching back home”. The moving marine-life documentary also won a BAFTA two weeks ago. Do you ...

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...

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...