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Frozen Waters

Lewis Pugh, the polar oceans, and the limits of body and planet.

Format
Short Documentary
Year
2025
Status
Released · Festival
Subject
Lewis Pugh
Post-production
Windy Lighthouse Studios
Synopsis

Where the body and the planet meet their limits.

Frozen Waters is a cinematic environmental documentary following internationally renowned endurance swimmer and ocean advocate Lewis Pugh through some of the world's most extreme and fragile polar environments.

Directed by Anastasia Fetisov and produced by Dominic Allen, the film chronicles Pugh's Antarctic ice swims and environmental advocacy campaigns, connecting the physical limits of the human body with the accelerating collapse of polar ecosystems.

Post-produced by Windy Lighthouse Studios, Frozen Waters forms part of Dominic Allen's broader slate of internationally oriented environmental documentaries, combining cinematic storytelling with urgent themes of climate change, ocean protection and planetary survival.

The film has achieved festival recognition and environmental-screening momentum, including Best Documentary at My Name Is Climate, Honourable Mention at Mirada Corta, a Best Film nomination at Future World Film Festival, and selections at Outer Banks Environmental Film Festival and Greenpoint Film Festival.

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Credits
Directed by
Anastasia Fetisov
Produced by
Anastasia Fetisov & Dominic Allen
Executive Producers
Anastasia Fetisov & Dimitri Boguslavsky
Editor
Ramon Watkins
Music by
Rose Riebl
Colorist
Fergus Hally
Sound Design
Shaun Clifford
Camera Operators
Michael Booth, Steve Peters, Kelvin Trautman
Post-produced by
Windy Lighthouse Studios
Featuring
Lewis PughEndurance swimmer & ocean advocate
Special Thanks
David Bush & The Lewis Pugh Foundation
Filmed on Location
East AntarcticaNovolazarevskaya Russian Base Station · Whichaway Camp at Schirmacher Oasis

Festivals & Awards

My Name Is Climate
Best Documentary
Mirada Corta
Honourable Mention
Future World Film Festival
Best Film Nominee
Outer Banks Environmental Film Festival
Official Selection
2025
Greenpoint Film Festival
Official Selection

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