Mpahleni who is popularly known as Madosini passed on Friday at St Mary’s Hospital in Mthatha, Eastern Cape, after a long illness, a family statement said.
‘The octopus walking on the ocean floor that’s me’ Ronan Skillen speaks about making music for the underwater world of the Cape kelp forest in My Octopus Teacher, the first SA documentary to win an Oscar. Gwen Ansell > By Gwen Ansell - 27 April 2021 - 09:06 My Octopus Teacher scored an Oscar nomination. Image: Craig Foster
Skillen is talking about his role providing additional music for the Netflix documentary
My Octopus Teacher. The film is the first original Netflix documentary to be made in SA, has won multiple awards including a Bafta, and is one of only a handful of South African films ever to make it to an Academy Awards shortlist. Then, on Sunday April 25, it won the Oscar for Best Documentary.