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Tanya Lapointe is a Canadian filmmaker and former journalist, most noted for her 2020 documentary film The Paper Man (Lafortune en papier). [1]
A longtime arts and culture journalist for Ici Radio-Canada, [2] she began dating film director Denis Villeneuve in the mid-2010s. [3] She took a leave of absence from the network in 2015 to work as a production assistant on Villeneuve's film Arrival , subsequently announcing her departure from journalism in 2016. [4] In 2025, Lapointe was nominated alongside Villeneuve for the Academy Award for Best Picture for their work as producers on Dune: Part Two .
Her debut as a documentary filmmaker, 50/50, was broadcast by Radio-Canada in 2018, and examined the gender gap between men and women in society. [5] The Paper Man premiered at the Whistler Film Festival in 2020, where it won the Audience Award. [6]
She participated in the 2021 edition of Le Combat des livres , advocating for Melchior Mbonimpa's novel Le totem des Baranda. [7]
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