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20 April 2021 - 08:34 By Reuters 'My Octopus Teacher' has scored an Oscar nomination. Image: Craig Foster 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 SA  filmmaker Craig Foster to rekindle his connection with nature by observing an inquisitive female mollusc while free-diving near Cape Town. LISTEN | What the octopus learnt She shared with him her secr...

Media & TelecomHuman-octopus love story up for best documentary Oscar Reuters 3 minutes read Pippa Ehrlich, James Reed, Craig Foster receive Documentary BAFTA award for "My Octopus Teacher", during the 74th British Academy Film Awards in London, Britain, April 11, 2021. BAFTA/Handout via REUTERS 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...

170 FILE PHOTO: Pippa Ehrlich, James Reed, Craig Foster receive Documentary BAFTA award for "My Octopus Teacher", during the 74th British Academy Film Awards in London. BAFTA/Handout via REUTERS 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 ...

Human-octopus love story up for best documentary Oscar By Alicia Powell Reuters (Reuters) - 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 ye...

Cinematographer Roger Horrocks shooting in the waters of South Africa’s False Bay. Underwater DP Roger Horrocks reflects on the moving experience of filming Craig Foster and a sensitive cephalopod in the Oscar-nominated documentary. In the Oscar-nominated documentary My Octopus Teacher, filmmaker Craig Foster explores the remarkable relationship that he forms with an octopus while free diving in an underwater kelp forest in South Africa's False Bay. But he wasn't the only one to be moved by this unlikely bond between man and cephalopod: Foster's friend and cinematographer Roger Horrocks f...