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iAfrica Image: My Octopus Teacher Share with your network! South African excellence was on display at the 93 rd Academy Awards in Los Angeles with the acclaimed Netflix documentary, My Octopus Teacher, winning an Oscar in the Best Documentary Feature Category. The documentary is set in the False Bay area in Cape Town and focusses on the intimate relationship between, independent film maker, Craig Foster and an Octopus, coming together in the Atlantic Ocean. South Africa has an abundance of marine bio-diversity –  ...

Local octopus expert part of Oscar winning documentary Poll Yes By Herald on April 29, 2021. Craig Foster interacts with an octopus in a scene from the Academy Award winning documentary “My Octopus Teacher.” The University of Lethbridge’s Jennifer Mather had a role as a scientific advisor for the production. (Netflix via AP) Al Beeber – Lethbridge Herald She didn’t win the Oscar herself but Jennifer Mather can still celebrate after serving as scientific advisor on the Academy Award winning documentary “My Octopus Teacher,” now showing on Netflix. Mather is a psychology professor...

Angela Bassett, earing and fashion detail, attends the 93rd Annual Academy Awards at Union Station on April 25, 2021 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Chris Pizzello-Pool/Getty Images) This year, with shrinking audiences and pandemic restrictions, there was a bitter irony in the fact women won more Oscars, across new and highly visible categories, than ever before.  The intimate Oscars ceremony (with only 170 VIP guests at LA’s Union Station) meant a reduced red carpet, where attendees made up for the lack of numbers by bringing colour, glamour and scale in what the...

Our World in Pictures: Week 17 of 2021 [caption id="attachment_906830" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] © Provided by Daily Maverick Vice President Kamala Harris and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) greet each other before U.S. President Joe Biden addresses a joint session of congress in the House chamber of the U.S. Capitol April 28, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)[/caption] [caption id="attachment_906831" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] © Provided by Daily Maverick U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) talks with Vice President Kamala Harri...

If ever an underwater adventure doc cried out for IMAX 3D, it’s this, but for now, let’s be thankful that we had a chance to visit this kingdom of strange and exotic animals. The emphasis here is on the vulnerability of life. Craig Foster is a South African documentary filmmaker and co-founder of the Sea Change Project. You’ve heard of Spider-Man’s arch foe, Doc Ock? How about an oc-doc, possessed of such humanity and awareness that it turns out to be the definitive (only?) film on the subject? An octopus is an anti-social animal that spends most of its life trying not to be seen, a t...