Nicolas Vanier (born 5 May 1962) is a French adventurer, writer and director.
His 2004 film ''
The Last Trapper
''The Last Trapper'' (french: Le Dernier Trappeur) is a 2006 French documentary film directed by Nicolas Vanier. It follows a trapper in Yukon
Yukon (; ; formerly called Yukon Territory and also referred to as the Yukon) is the smallest and we ...
'' follows a
trapper in
Yukon, Canada.
His film, ' ("Wolf") was released at the end of 2009 and was presented at the
2010 Cannes Film Festival. ''Loup'' is about the life of the
Evens tribe in North Eastern arctic
Siberia
Siberia ( ; rus, Сибирь, r=Sibir', p=sʲɪˈbʲirʲ, a=Ru-Сибирь.ogg) is an extensive geographical region, constituting all of North Asia, from the Ural Mountains in the west to the Pacific Ocean in the east. It has been a part o ...
, in the
Verkhoïansk
Verkhoyansk ( rus, Верхоянск, p=vʲɪrxɐˈjansk; sah, Верхоянскай, ''Verkhoyanskay'') is a town in Verkhoyansky District of the Sakha Republic, Russia, located on the Yana River in the Arctic Circle, from Batagay, the ...
mountain range, who live by raising large herds of
reindeer
Reindeer (in North American English, known as caribou if wild and ''reindeer'' if domesticated) are deer in the genus ''Rangifer''. For the last few decades, reindeer were assigned to one species, ''Rangifer tarandus'', with about 10 subsp ...
(
caribou), which involves protecting them from attacks by wolves.
In 2018,
France Nature Environnement
France Nature Environnement (FNE) is a national federation of associations for the protection of nature and the environment in France. Created in 1968 as the French Federation of Societies for the Protection of Nature (' it was recognised as having ...
formally complained that a film crew overseen by Vanier had disturbed a colony of
Greater Flamingoes, by repeatedly flying over them in an
ultra-light aircraft
Ultralight aviation (called microlight aviation in some countries) is the flying of lightweight, 1- or 2-seat fixed-wing aircraft. Some countries differentiate between weight-shift control and conventional three-axis control aircraft with aile ...
, causing many - an estimated 11% of the total breeding population in France - to desert their nests and eggs.
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
''The Last Trapper'' (french: Le Dernier Trappeur) is a 2006 French documentary film directed by Nicolas Vanier. It follows a trapper in Yukon
Yukon (; ; formerly called Yukon Territory and also referred to as the Yukon) is the smallest and we ...
'' (2004)
*''L'Odyssée sibérienne'' (2006)
*' (2009)
*''
Belle et Sébastien
''Belle et Sébastien'' is a 1966 novel by Cécile Aubry
about a six-year-old boy named Sébastien and his dog Belle, a Great Pyrenees, who live in a village in the French Alps close to the Italian border. Sébastien lives with his adopted grand ...
'' (2013)
*''
L'école buissonnière
''L'école buissonnière'' (English: ''Skip School''
and ''School of Life'', Russian: 'Как прогулять школу с пользой') is a 2017 French comedy-drama film directed by Nicolas Vanier.
Plot
Alongside Totoche, Paul will ...
'' (2017)
*''
Spread Your Wings (Donne-moi des ailes)'' - 2019
Bibliography
*''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)
References
External links
Biography(French)
*
Web site of the ''Loup'' movie(in French)
1962 births
20th-century French non-fiction writers
21st-century French non-fiction writers
French film directors
French male screenwriters
French screenwriters
Senegalese emigrants to France
Living people
Prix Maurice Genevoix winners
20th-century French male writers
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