Tanya Lapointe

Personal Info

Known For Producer

Gender Female

Place of Birth Canada

Tanya Lapointe

Biography

Tanya Lapointe is a Canadian filmmaker and former journalist, most noted for her 2020 documentary film The Paper Man (Lafortune en papier). A long-time arts and culture journalist for Ici Radio-Canada, she began dating film director Denis Villeneuve in the mid-2010s. 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. 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. The Paper Man premiered at the Whistler Film Festival in 2020, where it won the Audience Award. She participated in the 2021 edition of Le Combat des livres, advocating for Melchior Mbonimpa's novel Le totem des Baranda. Description above from the Wikipedia article Tanya Lapointe, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For

Producer

Dune: Part Three

as Producer

2024
Dune: Part Two

as Producer

2021
The Paper Man

as Producer

2021
The Paper Man

as Researcher

2021
Dune

as Executive Producer

2018
Doc humanité

as Producer

Actor

2013
2007

Director

2024
Dune: Part Two

as Second Unit Director

2021
The Paper Man

as Director

2018
Doc humanité

as Director

Writer

2021
The Paper Man

as Writer