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EXCLUSIVE: James Reed, director of Oscar-winning Netflix documentary My Octopus Teacher, has struck a one-year development partnership with BBC Studios. Under the terms of the deal, Reed and his company Underdog Films will work with the BBC’s commercial producer-distributor over the next 12 months…

EXCLUSIVE: Last Of The Right Whales, Nadine Pequeneza's recently completed documentary about the fight to save the titular sea mammal, has been picked up by Off The Fence, the distribution and production company behind Oscar winning doc My Octopus Teacher. The South African outfit has taken all international rights…

My Octopus Teacher wrapped its tentacles around the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, corralling a win for Netflix in that category for the second year in a row and third time in the last four years. It also brought a rare victory to an African film of any kind—producer and subject Craig Foster is South…

There's a chase scene in My Octopus Teacher as suspenseful as anything in a Hollywood thriller. The film's heroine, a tentacled cephalopod, is being pursued by a pajama shark through a kelp forest off the tip of South Africa. She jets, weaves, inks the waters like Bond expelling smoke from his Aston Martin, dives for…

EXCLUSIVE: WME has signed James Reed, the co-writer and director behind My Octopus Teacher, Netflix's first original documentary from South Africa that is up for the Best Documentary Feature Oscar. It follows Foster as he free-dives in a cold underwater kelp forest in South Africa and develops a relationship with a…

Shakespeare warned to "beware the Ides of March," but the 15th brought glad tidings to a select group of documentary feature filmmakers who earned coveted Oscar nominations. Among them was Pippa Ehrlich, the South African-born director of the Netlix documentary My Octopus Teacher. "I was surprised enough to jump about…

Dick Johnson Is Dead, Netflix’s personal documentary exploring a daughter’s look into the decline of her aging father, took top honors from the Critics’ Choice Documentary Awards for Best Documentary Feature as well as Best Director for Kirsten Johnson. The awards, which were spread out among several winners, saw no…