From Australia to the UK, USA and around the World
Credit By SeaChangeProject - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0,
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The Underwater Chameleon – a great introduction to Octopuses (Cephalopods)
Did You Know?
The Octopus:
Can within a split second change colour and texture
The Coconut Octopus hides it’s a coconut shell that it carries around
Possesses nine brains
Has three hearts
Has Blue Blood running through its veins
Both male and female die soon after mating
My Octopus Teacher
(Netflix – Documentary Emmy nominee Craig Foster)
Educational, moving, heart-wrenching, and an incredible watch
A breath-taking and unforgettable documentary popular with the media
THE DAILY MAIL
"‘She taught me that we are inseparable from nature’: Meet the human star of amazing new Netflix film My Octopus Teacher, which charts a never-before-seen bond with a remarkable mollusc’
"‘She taught me that we are inseparable from nature’: Meet the human star of amazing new Netflix film My Octopus Teacher, which charts a never-before-seen bond with a remarkable mollusc’
My Octopus Teacher was filmed over a year in a kelp forest off the wild 'Cape of Storms' in South Africa
In it we see how filmmaker Craig Foster formed a remarkable friendship with a very curious common octopus
Viewers see the octopus exhibiting behaviour that has never been recorded by science or on film
Mr Miyagi from The Karate Kid, Professor Keating from Dead Poets Society, Dumbledore - there have been many great on-screen teachers.
Now an octopus joins their ranks, thanks to a new Netflix documentary – My Octopus Teacher.
It's a fascinating, beautifully scored – and at times deeply moving – account of how filmmaker Craig Foster formed a bond during daily swims with an octopus living in a kelp forest off the 'Cape of Storms' in South Africa. And how the amazing creature went on to become, he told MailOnline Travel, his 'ultimate teacher' – changing how he relates to nature.
New Netflix documentary My Poctopus Teacher is an extraordinary account of a never-before-seen bond between filmmaker Craig Foster and a common octopus. This picture of Craig with the Octopus was taken by his son, Tom.
Viewers will see the octopus star of My Octopus Teacher (pictured) exhibiting behaviour never recorded by science or on film
In the documentary, before the octopus's 'lessons' become apparent, we learn that Craig, 52, began free-diving without a wetsuit in the frigid kelp forest at the tip of Africa - part of the 800-mile long Great African Sea Forest - to re-energise himself after suffering burnout. And we then join him at the beginning of his friendship journey with an animal that he discovers day by day is truly remarkable. “
“We'll see the creature cunningly riding the back of a shark that's hunting it, camouflaging itself almost magically with its surroundings – and greeting Craig with the affection of a pet dog.”
The trailer for the documentary, which won Best Feature at the 2020 EarthxFilm Festival, can be seen here www.netflix.com/za/title/81045007. The film is a collaboration between the Sea Change Project, Off the Fence Productions based in the Netherlands and Netflix. To learn more about the work of the Sea Change Project - 'a community of scientists, storytellers, journalists and filmmakers who are dedicated to the ocean' -visit stories.seachangeproject.com/my-octopus-teacher.”
“This is a direct Citation” By Ted Thornhill (2020, September 15) Daily Mail. Retrieved from https://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/escape/article-8731945/Meet-Craig-Foster-human-star-amazing-new-Netflix-film-Octopus-Teacher.html
“This is a direct Citation” By Ted Thornhill (2020, September 15) Daily Mail. Retrieved from https://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/escape/article-8731945/Meet-Craig-Foster-human-star-amazing-new-Netflix-film-Octopus-Teacher.html
USA TODAY
“Is there something in your eye, or did you just watch Netflix's 'My Octopus Teacher'?
THE FIRST HUMAN/OCTOPUS HUG
Diver Craig Foster becomes fascinated with an Octopus, and visits her for hundreds of days in a row, in "My Octopus Teacher." NETFLIX
“This is a direct Citation” By Carly Mallenbaum (2020, September 22) USA Today. Retrieved from https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/movies/2020/09/22/my-octopus-teacher-netflix-documentary-unexpected-tearjerker/5860006002/
AUSTRALIAN GEOGRAPHIC
"Octopus scientists love 'My Octopus Teacher' just as much as you do.
DUBBED "the love story we all need right now", Netflix's new documentary film My Octopus Teacher looks at the unusual relationship between a diver and an octopus.
Set in a kelp forest off the Western Cape of South Africa, we follow diver Craig Foster encountering an initially cagey, but soon forthcoming cephalopod for almost it
its entire lifecycle, shedding light on the animal's incredible intelligence.”
“This is a direct Citation” By Angela Heathcote (2020, September 25) Australia Geographic. Retrieved from https://www.australiangeographic.com.au/topics/wildlife/2020/09/octopus-scientists-love-my-octopus-teacher-just-as-much-as-you-do/
MAMAMIA
“This documentary about a man falling in love with an octopus is exactly what we need in 2020.
I can't pinpoint the exact moment I became heavily invested in the relationship between a South African man and a female octopus.
Maybe it was the first time she touched him with her suction-capped arm.
Perhaps it was when he placed his head in his hands as he recounted the time a shark attacked her.
It could have been when he hand-fed her and watched her slowly heal after the attack.
All I know is by the end of the 85-minute documentary, I was bawling my eyes out, and I needed to tell everyone I knew about it.”
“This is a direct Citation” By Keryn Donelly (2020 September) Pop Culture Editor Mamamia. Retrieved from https://www.mamamia.com.au/my-octopus-teacher-netflix/
I highly recommend viewing this beautiful story
Fans like me can't seem to get enough. Since its debut in September, I've watched it twice, so far.
A film documentary that definitely the nature-lover and explorer, or perhaps even anyone will enjoy.
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