’My Octopus Teacher’ Documentary Directors on Filming Their Underwater Oscar Winner

Following a man who forms a bond with an octopus inhabiting a kelp forest, ’My Octopus Teacher’ won the Oscar for Best Documentary at the 93rd Academy Awards. Backstage, Directors Pippa Ehrlich and James Reed describe their hope that audiences embrace their message: that humanity find more “hopeful and respectful way of engaging with the planet“.