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Interview with Erhlich Pippa

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Pippa Ehrlich graduated from Rhodes in 2009 with a BJourn specialising in TV. She started her career as a researcher and production assistant at Flying Fish productions, helping to produce a number of award-winning excerpts for the investigative television programme Carte Blanche. She then worked variously as a freelance journalist; an English teacher in Thailand; a creative planner for an audiovisual production company; and, as a conservation journalist and media co-ordinator for the Save Our Seas Foundation. Since 2017 she has worked for the Sea Change Project, a community of scientists, storytellers, journalists and filmmakers who are dedicated to protecting South Africa’s marine environment. Pippa was a co-director, co-writer and co-editor of the 2020 Netflix-produced Sea Change Project documentary film, My Octopus Teacher, for which she received an Academy Award (Oscar) for Best Documentary Feature, a British Academy Film Award (Bafta) for Best Documentary, an American Cinema Editors Award for Best Edited Documentary, and a host of other prestigious awards and nominations.
28 Jun 2023 English South Africa Business · Education

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