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Andrew Budziak

Photography and videography
@andrew_budziak
Toronto based filmmaker, photographer & host EC50 ‘26 @trebekinitiative / @cangeo / @natgeo @rcgs_sgrc @ilcp_photographers @the_explorers_club
  • Food & Personal Goods
  • Food & Cooking
  • Following 1.8K
  • Followers 7.4K
  • Engagement 1.74%
  • Avg comments 4

About Andrew Budziak

Andrew Budziak (@andrew_budziak) is a Photography and videography creator on Instagram, also filed under Food & Personal Goods and Food & Cooking. The account has 7,372 followers and 846 published posts. Recent posts average 112 likes and 4 comments, an engagement rate of 1.74%.

Andrew Budziak belongs to the nano tier, the band usually drawn between 1,000 and 10,000 followers. Andrew Budziak follows 1,798 accounts, so the audience is roughly 4.1 times the size of the list followed. Andrew Budziak carries Instagram's verified badge and is set up as an Instagram business account. Flinque files Andrew Budziak under 3 categories, led by Photography and videography and followed by Food & Personal Goods and Food & Cooking.

The Instagram bio for Andrew Budziak runs to 17 words across 4 lines. The bio mentions @trebekinitiative, @cangeo, @natgeo and @rcgs_sgrc. The latest activity Flinque has on record for Andrew Budziak dates from May 2026.

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846 Posts

Of the 10 most recent posts shown for Andrew Budziak, 5 are videos, 4 are carousels and 1 is a single image. No single format accounts for most of them. Andrew Budziak has built a substantial archive of 846 posts. Against the audience, that is roughly 8.7 followers for each post published. Andrew Budziak also keeps 5 story highlights on the profile. All 10 carry captions, averaging 78 words each. The captions are written mainly in English. Words that recur across them include work, lakes, freshwater, frozen and canadian. The captions tag #freezethefuture, #explorepodcast, #icediving, #freshwater and #diatom.

Hi! If you’re looking for something to watch, head over to my YouTube channel. There’s a whole urban wildlife series called Edge Of Frame you can check out. It was so damn fun to make and even more fun to watch! Enjoy.
Much of the oxygen on Earth comes from microscopic algae. Yet until now, little was known about how these organisms survive beneath the ice in winter.

Through his Trebek-supported research, Andrew Budziak helped document algae communities living on the underside of frozen lake ice during the winter months, revealing a hidden part of freshwater ecosystems at a time when ice cover is rapidly changing.

Earlier today, Andrew brought audiences beneath the frozen surface of Canadian lakes during a live session with Exploring By The Seat Of Your Pants.

Building on that work, Andrew later launched Freeze the Future, an expedition and film project that relies on skilled volunteer divers to help researchers access and study environments few people ever see.

During today’s presentation, Andrew encouraged students to see science as something they can participate in themselves, whether through exploration, curiosity, or fieldwork close to home.

Thanks to Andrew and Exploring By The Seat Of Your Pants for hosting today’s session.

Watch the presentation through the link in our bio.
Learn more about the hidden natural world with, Canadian explorer, filmmaker and wildlife photographer telling stories of places most people don’t think to look.

Andrew leads the project #FreezeTheFuture, where he and a team of ice divers explore frozen lakes to study how climate change is affecting our freshwater.

Tune in live on YouTube on Wednesday to learn more about Andrew’s work and discover a world you might not had the chance to see before 🌎

Learn more at the link in our bio!
Freeze the future 🧊

Andrew Budziak is a Canadian filmmaker and environmental storyteller whose work pushes the boundaries of what we know about life beneath winter ice. As the founder and expedition lead of Freeze The Future, he pioneered the first large-scale citizen-science ice-diving initiative to collect intact algae from the underside of frozen lakes, an ecosystem long considered inaccessible. His team’s expeditions have opened a new frontier in freshwater research, delivering rare samples now being sequenced by labs across North America and cryobanked at the Canadian Museum of Nature.

“This is extreme citizen science. Everytime we descend under the ice, we enter an alien, hostile and beautiful world. We love this work and are hooked on the idea of driving forward new research.” -

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What lies beneath? When it comes to lake ice, Canadian documentary maker and freshwater researcher are discovering some important answers… Specifically about diatoms, an algae attached to the bottom of ice that is a lynchpin to the freshwater food web and is in acute danger due to climate change. Join us for a fascinating deep dive into Canada’s frozen lakes with the these two Fellows and grantees on the ##ExplorePodcast link in bio

#icediving #freshwater #diatom
!!!!! Over the past several months I have had the absolute pleasure of working with and on a new project. You probably know them from their remarkable documentary and series All Too Clear. I’ve been working with them on a new crazy awesome series called Hidden Below. This project is a basically like a Blue Planet treatment of the Great Lakes. What we’ve captured so far has been mind blowing. Head over to to get all the info and updates.
Happy home opener! A few months back I did a shoot with for. I’ve worked in sports media and broadcast for a very long time. It was basically my first job and I only really stopped doing it a few years ago. This photoshoot was a step back into the sports world. I’ve worked with a lot of professional athletes and I can say without a doubt that Ernie is the nicest and kindest pro athlete I’ve ever met. He wasn’t just easy to work with - his energy made the day better. He was amazing with everyone on the crew and anyone else hanging around the practice facility. What a gem.

Go Jays Go!

This shoot was for. Go check them out. They make great stuff.
The ice was friendly today. The fog? Not so much. Peter and I stayed safe a dry-ish so it was a good day over all.
Here’s how we get dressed for ice diving! Stay warm, pals.
Sending out this little field report. We’re about mid way through. Things have been incredible. Here’s what our work looks like. Lots more photos and video to come.

Thanks for the amazing under ice stills.

Andrew Budziak's engagement

Andrew Budziak's engagement rate on Instagram is 1.74%, between 1% and 3%, or 1 to 3 likes and comments per 100 followers. On a typical post that comes to about 1 like or comment for every 57 followers. An average post collects 112 likes and 4 comments, close to 28 likes for each comment.

Engagement rate

1.74%

Avg likes
112
Avg comments
4
Interactions : followers
1 : 57

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Who is Andrew Budziak?

Andrew Budziak (@andrew_budziak) is a Photography and videography creator on Instagram, also filed under Food & Personal Goods and Food & Cooking. Andrew Budziak carries Instagram's verified badge and is set up as an Instagram business account. The Instagram bio for Andrew Budziak runs to 17 words across 4 lines.

How many followers does Andrew Budziak have?

Andrew Budziak has 7,372 followers on Instagram (7.4K). Andrew Budziak follows 1,798 accounts, so the audience is roughly 4.1 times the size of the list followed. Andrew Budziak has built a substantial archive of 846 posts.

What is Andrew Budziak's engagement rate?

Andrew Budziak's engagement rate on Instagram is 1.74%, between 1% and 3%, or 1 to 3 likes and comments per 100 followers. On a typical post that comes to about 1 like or comment for every 57 followers. An average post collects 112 likes and 4 comments, close to 28 likes for each comment.

What does Andrew Budziak post about on Instagram?

Flinque files Andrew Budziak under 3 categories, led by Photography and videography and followed by Food & Personal Goods and Food & Cooking. Of the 10 most recent posts shown for Andrew Budziak, 5 are videos, 4 are carousels and 1 is a single image. The 10 recent Instagram captions Flinque holds for Andrew Budziak repeatedly use the words work, lakes, freshwater, frozen and canadian. Andrew Budziak's captions carry hashtags such as #freezethefuture, #explorepodcast and #icediving. Andrew Budziak writes those captions mainly in English. Andrew Budziak keeps 5 story highlights, which open with a free Flinque account.

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