Pippa Ehrlich and James Reed won the coveted Best Documentary Bafta April 11 for My Octopus Teacher, their Netflix Original story of an unusual friendship between a filmmaker and an octopus living in a South African kelp forest.
My Octopus Teacher is also nominated for Best Documentary in the upcoming Academy Awards, to be handed out April 25.
For Business Doc Europe interview with co-director James Reed
For Business Doc Europe interview with co-director Pippa Ehrlich
The other nominees in the Bafta Documentary category were:
COLLECTIVE Alexander Nanau
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH: A LIFE ON OUR PLANET Alastair Fothergill, Jonnie Hughes, Keith Scholey
THE DISSIDENT Bryan Fogel, Thor Halvorssen, Mark Monroe, Jake Swantko
THE SOCIAL DILEMMA Jeff Orlowski, Larissa Rhodes
