Nicolas Vanier
Nicolas Vanier (born 5 May 1962) is a French adventurer, writer and director.
Nicolas Vanier
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- Name
- Nicolas Vanier
- Born
- 5 May 1962
- Birthplace
- Senegal
- Occupation
- Director, writer, cinematographer
- Nationality
- France
- Honours
- Prix Maurice Genevoix · Knight of the Legion of Honour
- Languages
- Arabic · French
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Key facts
• Name — Nicolas Vanier • Born — 5 May 1962 • Birthplace — Senegal • Occupation — Director, writer, cinematographer • Years Active — 1993–present
Events
Events
In 2018 France Nature Environnement formally complained that Nicolas Vanier's film crew had disturbed a colony of Greater Flamingos by repeatedly flying overhead in an ultralight and causing an estimated 11% of the French breeding population to abandon its nests and eggs. Vanier later agreed to end his filmmaking and transfer the movie's location to Norway.
Filmography
Filmography
• Les coureurs de bois (1982) • Au nord de l'hiver (1991) • L'enfant des neiges (1995) • Un hiver de chien (1997) • L'Odyssée blanche (2000) • The Last Trapper (2004) • L'Odyssée sibérienne (2006) • ' (2009) • Belle et Sébastien (2013) • L'école buissonnière (2017) • Spread Your Wings (Donne-moi des ailes) - 2019
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Identity
Nicolas Vanier is recorded as writer, screenwriter, dogsled musher, racing automobile driver and director.
Nicolas Vanier, explorateur, 2011
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Life and career
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1962
Nicolas Vanier born at Dakar.
Films
Nicolas Vanier's 2004 film The Last Trapper followed a trapper in the Canadian Yukon. In 2009 Vanier's movie ' ("Wolf") detailed the life of the Evens tribe in Siberia, Verkhoyansk mountain range, who lived by raising large herds of reindeer which they protected from attacking wolves. In 2019, Nicolas Vanier's project Spread Your Wings sold well in the international markets.
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- 1.Cineuropa. The Last Trapper by Nicolas Vanier.
- 2.Association Française des Directrices et Directeurs de la Photographie Cinématographique (in French). Loup.
- 3.Variety. SND Scores Major Deals on Nicolas Vanier's 'Spread Your Wings' (EXCLUSIVE). 18 May 2019.
- 4.BirdGuides. France's Only Flamingo Colony Disturbed by Famous Filmmaker. 2 July 2018.
- 5.RFI. French Director Abandons Film Project After Giving Wild Flamingos a Fright. 3 July 2018.
- 6.Cineuropa. Nicolas Vanier Continues the Shoot for Spread Your Wings. 1 August 2018.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 21
- Le triathlon historique (1988)
- Solitude nord (1990)
- Transsibérie, le mythe sauvage (1992)
- La vie en nord (1993)
- Solitudes blanches (1994)
- L'enfant des neiges (1995)
- Otchum, l'extraordinaire aventure d'un chien de traîneaux (1996)
- Nord, grand voyage dans le pays d'en haut (1997)
- Robinson du froid (1997)
- Un hiver sur les traces de Jack London (1997)
- Destin nord (1998)
- Territoire (1998)
- Le grand brame (1998)
- L'odyssée blanche (1999)
- C'est encore loin l'Alaska (2000)
- Le chant du grand nord (2002) - awarded the Prix Maurice Genevoix
- Le voyageur du froid (2003)
- L'or sous la neige (2004)
- L'Odyssée sibérienne (26 October 2006)
- Album illustré par Philippe Mignon (2006)
- Guide de l'aventurier (2006)
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