Blue diver star wars2/18/2023 ![]() The real challenge for Ehrlich and Foster was going through the hours of material and assembling a narrative that wove together the unlikely parallels of a burned-out documentarian and a common octopus in the Great African Sea Forest. ![]() “The opportunity that we had to tell a story that wove feelings and science together in this way felt serendipitous.” “He hadn’t told me much about it, I just knew that he’d had a very meaningful experience with an octopus that he had visited regularly,” says Ehrlich. By then, Foster’s year with the octopus had come and gone, but the experience had been meticulously documented by Foster and his friend Roger Horrocks, a blue-chip underwater cameraman he would frequently free-dive with. Fellow free-diver and conservation journalist Ehrlich was introduced to Foster’s story in early 2017, after diving with the documentarian for about six months. Foster and his friendship with a cephalopod are the subject of Netflix’s first South African nature documentary, directed by first-time South African filmmaker Pippa Ehrlich and British documentarian James Reed. ![]()
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