
“My Octopus Teacher” is streaming on Netflix. It’s also a little crazy and doesn’t do much to hide its aggressive tugs on your heartstrings. For more than a year Foster follows her on daily dives as she hunts for prey and evades her predators with an uncanny ingenuity that calls into question human assumptions of superior intelligence. And he kind of showed us if a man can kind of forma friendship with an octopus, it does sort of make you wonder what else is possible.” My Octopus Teacher is a beautiful, moving, and reflective experience. My Octopus Teacher tells the story of the unusual bond between Foster and a wild octopus he encounters while freediving. He closed with an “extra thank you for Craig while it was such an enormous team making this film, in the end, it sort of began and ended with him and it’s his story. A filmmaker forges an unusual friendship. “It’s a great and totally overwhelming honor to be here and thank you so much to the academy,” said co-director James Reed. A New Breed of Animal Documentary Gunda and My Octopus Teacher present creatures as distinct beings with qualities that have nothing to do with humans. We tell stories that connect people to the wild, motivating them to become part of the regeneration of our planet.
Indeed, it wasn’t even reviewed by many major outlets, including The Times. Cape Town: My octopus teacher is a full-length documentary that adheres to Craig Fosters life-changing encounter, in which he describes an. She’s been attacked she’s learned from it.”Īlthough the film earned significant social media buzz after it launched on Netflix in September 2020, it was not initially pegged as a prime Oscar contender. It’s a testament to a creature with her own individual response to things. You wouldn’t dare put it in your shooting script.

Co-director James Reed told The Times, “It is just absolutely mind-blowing how she outwits the shark. In perhaps the documentary’s signature scene, the filmmakers capture the octopus - which by this time viewers have come to care about - being pursued by a shark.
