The adventurer Nicolas Vanier is the guest of the show "It feels good" Monday, on the occasion of the DVD release of his film "Poly".

He returns to Anne Roumanoff's microphone on her unusual career as an explorer-director, and remembers the way in which the idea that he could live from it was born in his mind.

INTERVIEW

His profession does not appear in the files of guidance counselors from Onisep (National Office for Information on Education and Professions).

However, Nicolas Vanier makes a living from his profession as an adventurer and film director.

Guest on Monday of the show 

It feels good

 for the DVD release of his film 

Poly

, the explorer remembers at the microphone of Anne Roumanoff the moment in his life when he understood that his travels and the video memories he brought back could become a real profession.

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The helping hand of an amateur festival

"From my first trip, I went with my daddy's Super 8 camera to bring back a little film and show it to my audience, that is to say to my brothers, my aunts and my uncles", remembers Nicolas. Vanier.

His first amateur travel film could therefore, like so many others, have remained in a family setting.

This will not be the case.

“Someone heard about the fact that I had made a movie,” explains the adventurer.

"There was an adventure film festival, and I was offered to edit my film. I didn't even know what it meant to edit a film!"

He agrees to participate, and his film will leave the festival with the first prize.

140 francs for a photo

So much so that a few seconds of his film pass on television. “Incredible!”, Nicolas Vanier still rejoices today. But the real trigger comes from a call from

Télé 7 Jours

magazine 

. "We are going to do a small subject on this festival that you won, do you have a photo?", We ask him then. The TV magazine bought him one of his pictures for 140 francs.

"And there, it clicked," says Nicolas Vanier. "I thought to myself that, if it happens, with a camera and a camera, even though I already liked it a lot, I will be able to live a bit of my travels." The explorer's career is launched. But Nicolas Vanier recognizes however that his profession did not become viable from the first trips. Before, therefore, to know success.