24 Jun 2024

Documentary filmmaker Frederique Olivier on living in the extremes

From Nights, 10:18 pm on 24 June 2024

A field guide, naturalist and documentary filmmaker, Frederique Olivier has 22 Antarctic seasons under her belt, as well as expeditions to far-flung and freezing places like Greenland and Svalbard.

She makes nature documentaries for outlets like the BBC, Netflix and National Geographic.

Based in Tasmania, Frederique is the guest speaker at this year's New Zealand Mountain Film Festival in Wanaka and she joins Emile Donovan.

Frederique sits in a canoe holding a camera. The canoe is going down a swampy canal, with reeds on either side, and a dim blue sky overhead.

Nature documentary filmmaker Frederique Olivier is a guest speaker at the 2024 New Zealand Mountain Film Festival. Photo: Supplied