Mthethwa hails My Octopus Teacher Oscar win as victory for local filmmakers Updated
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South African filmmakers have been given a lifeline after the National Film and Video Foundation (NFVF) partnered with Netflix to fund six locally produced films.
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The collaboration will create new opportunities for emerging filmmakers in the local film industry after many productions suffered a massive blow due to Covid-19 and the national lockdown.
The fund will help alleviate the pressure filmmakers face to raise funding and will assist in the alleviation of low job creation currently faced by the sector.
Indian filmmaker Swati Thiyagarajan. File Photo.
Indian echoes at the 93rd Academy Awards, a social distancing event held in the shadow of the pandemic, were faint but distinct.
“My Octopus Teacher”, which has Indian filmmaker Swati Thiyagarajan as associate producer and production manager, won the best documentary feature at the Oscars, which also honoured actor Irrfan Khan and costume designer Bhanu in its ‘In Memoriam’ segment.
Indian echoes at the 93rd Academy Awards, a social distancing event held in the shadow of the pandemic, were faint but distinct.
“We won!!! Best documentary feature Oscar!!!,” Thiyagarajan, who has also written “Born Wild: Journey into the Wild Hearts of India and Africa”, tweeted after “My Octopus Teacher” bagged the Oscar.
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Associate Producer of Oscar-nominated film, My Octopus Teacher gets a seat on Keri s Couch Updated
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The BAFTA winning environmental film, was produced by her husband Craig Foster and directed by Pippa Ehrlich and James Reed.
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You may know her from
her show, Born Wild: Journey into the Wild Hearts of India and Africa, she is
Swati Thiyagarajan Associate Producer of the Netflix Original film, My Octopus
Teacher.
She sits with Keri
Miller on Keri’s Couch and shares exclusives about the processes that went into
creating the 2020 documentary.
Conservation journalist,
Swati Thiyagarajan was born in South India. She grew up in Chennai where she
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 secret life in an underwater kelp forest every day for a year before her death after mating and laying eggs, and the pair developed a deep bond.