{"id":138800,"date":"2022-10-10T15:53:44","date_gmt":"2022-10-10T10:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/my-octopus-teacher-director-james-reed-ties-with-bbc-studios\/"},"modified":"2022-10-10T15:53:55","modified_gmt":"2022-10-10T10:23:55","slug":"my-octopus-teacher-bbc-studios-director-james-reed-ties-the-knot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/my-octopus-teacher-bbc-studios-director-james-reed-ties-the-knot\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018My Octopus Teacher\u2019 BBC Studios Director James Reed ties the knot"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t<strong>EXCLUSIVE<\/strong>James Reed, director of Oscar winning Netflix documentary <em>My Octopus Teacher <\/em>A one-year partnership has been established with BBC Studios.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tUnder the terms of the deal, Reed and his company Underdog Films will work with the BBC\u2019s commercial producer-distributor over the next 12 months, adding to its pipeline of natural history feature docs. Reed will be joined at Underdog by Matt Houghton as his creative partner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe news has been unveiled as the UK\u2019s Wildscreen Festival gets underway, the respected natural history TV festival, and Reed is due to speak on a panel later today.<code><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"680\" height=\"814\" class=\"wp-image-1235139635\" style=\"width: 150px\" src=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/lazy-load-0.7\/images\/1x1.trans.gif\" alt=\"\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/\u2018My-Octopus-Teacher-Director-James-Reed-Ties-With-BBC-Studios.png\" data-lazy- title=\"\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"680\" height=\"814\" class=\"wp-image-1235139635\" style=\"width: 150px\" src=\"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/\u2018My-Octopus-Teacher-Director-James-Reed-Ties-With-BBC-Studios.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/noscript><\/code><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\nWith Netflix 2020, he received worldwide praise <em>My Octopus Teacher <\/em>The story of a South African filmmaker who forms an unexpected friendship and which goes on to win Best Documentary Feature at the Oscars. Reed\u2019s past credits include<em> Jago \u2013 A Life Underwater <\/em>And <em>Rise of the Warrior Apes<\/em>He founded Underdog in 2015<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tBBC Studios Natural History Unit (NHU) Head Jonny Keeling said: \u201cCharacter and emotional storytelling are at the heart of filmmaking both at the NHU and Underdog Films, so we look forward to developing a number of original, ambitious and compelling natural history features.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\nReed was very pleased with the NHU&#8217;s work. \u201cat the forefront of natural history film-making for decades and their further growth in the feature doc market will be a fantastic development for the industry as a whole.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\nThe NHU had a great couple of years. It won commissions at the likes Netflix, Apple TV+, HBO, and also prepared for the likes <em>Blue Planet III<\/em>BBC<em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EXCLUSIVEJames Reed, director of Oscar winning Netflix documentary My Octopus Teacher A one-year partnership has been established with BBC Studios. Under the terms of the deal, Reed and his company Underdog Films will work with the BBC\u2019s commercial producer-distributor over the next 12 months, adding to its pipeline of natural history feature docs. Reed will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":138801,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101,3,105,106],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/\u2018My-Octopus-Teacher-Director-James-Reed-Ties-With-BBC-Studios.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138800"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138800"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":138802,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138800\/revisions\/138802"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}