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‘My Octopus Teacher’ Filmmaker to Focus on Restoration of Extinct Species Such as the Dodo Bird in Upcoming Doc
James Reed, who co-directed 'My Octopus Teacher,' is working on a docuseries about the restoration of extinct species such as the dodo bird
Reed, who won an Academy Award in 2020 for co-directing “My Octopus Teacher,” is currently in production on the multi-year docuseries, which will follow the Dallas-based company as it uses gene-editing technology to bring back extinct species including the woolly mammoth, the thylacine (commonly referred to as the Tasmanian tiger) and the dodo bird. Reed will chronicle how Colossal, which deems itself the world’s first de-extinction company, strives to rewild the extinct animals and bring them back to their natural habitats. After winning the Oscar in 2020 for the Netflix doc “My Octopus Teacher,” about a South African filmmaker who forges an unexpected friendship with an octopus, Reed directed and produced the Netflix docuseries “Chimp Empire” and was a director and creative consultant at the BBC Studios Natural History Unit, directing an episode of “Frozen Planet 2: Our Frozen Planet.”
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