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SA documentary 'My Octopus Teacher' wins a BAFTA! Updated Breakfast with Martin Bester Source: Twitter @BAFTA The South African documentary, 'My Octopus Teacher', was named the best documentary at the British Academy Film Awards in London on Sunday night. Like many other ceremonies of its type, the BAFTAs was held online this year.   An emotional Pippa Ehrlich received the award on behalf of the production team. 'My Octopus Teacher' is a 2020 Netflix original documentary film directed by Pippa Ehrlich and James Reed, which documents a year spent by filmmaker Craig Foster forging a relat...

How My Octopus Teacher turned a fishy friendship into an unlikely Bafta-winner Pippa Ehrlich and James Reed on making one man's personal odyssey into a hit documentary now tipped for Oscar glory 12 April 2021 • 4:20pm Man's best friend: Craig Foster diving with the eight-legged star of My Octopus Teacher Credit: Ross Frylinck On Sunday night, the Bafta award for Best Documentary went to one of 2020’s strangest offerings. It had all the ingredients of being a hit: a slow-burn central relationship, moments of peril, and an ending that would break your heart. But it was also about a man and ...

Why ‘My Octopus Teacher’ Directors Brought in an ‘Octopus Psychologist’ for Their Documentary “She helped us get inside the mind of an octopus as much as she could,” says co-director Pippa Reed of the cephalopod expert they consulted for their filmSteve Pond | April 12, 2021 @ 1:44 PM AWARDS BEAT Netflix One of the oddest relationships you’ll see on screen this year is the one between South African filmmaker and diver Craig Foster and the octopus he befriended while diving in the Great African Sea Forest. That’s the relationship at the heart of the documentary “My Octop...

Baftas 2021: Nomadland wins big as Anthony Hopkins and Promising Young Woman surprise Catherine Shoard What to watch next Replay Video (Video by The Independent) Nomadland, Chloé Zhao’s elegiac drama about the life of ageing van-dwellers in America, has confirmed its position as Oscars frontrunner with four wins at the 74th Bafta awards, including best film. Zhao took best director, making her only the second woman – following Kathryn Bigelow in 2010 – to pick up the award. Nomadland also won cinematography and leading actress for Frances McDormand. McDormand did not a...

The Bafta Awards took place on Sunday and a South African documentary took home one of the top prizes.