Pic of the Week: SA celebrates with Oscar win

Tourism Update celebrated alongside all South Africans when the local Netflix documentary, ‘My Octopus Teacher’, won an Oscar this week.

Aside from countless other awards, the film also received a British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) Best Documentary award earlier this month.

The beautiful film, documents a year spent by filmmaker, Craig Foster, forging a relationship with a curious octopus in a South African kelp forest in False Bay near Simon’s Town.

We were thrilled to see a photo of a giant billboard depicting the win in Los Angeles. The award-winning film is sure to generate increased interest in South Africa as a tourism destination, and Cape Town’s False Bay in particular.

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