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MY OCTOPUS TEACHER – Review by Susan Granger

April 26, 2021 Susan Granger craig foster, docomentaries, my octopus teacher, oscars, south african films

I’ve seen hundreds of nature documentaries but nothing like Craig Foster’s compelling, Oscar-winning underwater adventure, chronicling his free-diving – without wetsuit or scuba gear- in the frigid Atlantic Ocean in the Cape of Storms, off the Western coast of South Africa every day for a year. Best known for filming The Great Dance (2000) about the indigenous Kalahari San trackers, Foster was, admittedly, mentally depressed and physically exhausted when he started swimming in a shallow cove with a dense kelp forest.

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MY OCTOPUS TEACHER – Review by Diane Carson

October 23, 2020October 23, 2020 Diane Carson 0 Comments craig foster, documentaries, james reed, my octopus teacher, pippa erlich, south africa

The lovely, surprising documentary My Octopus Teacher features, as the film title accurately states, a wild octopus that educates the central character, Craig Foster. He becomes enlightened and enriched regarding the multiple ways a partnership with nature, this one octopus in particular, benefits an individual. As astonishing as it is heartwarming, Foster generously shares an incredible journey.