| The Paper Man | |
| Native Name: | |
| Director: | Tanya Lapointe |
| Producer: | Tanya Lapointe Marika Lapointe |
| Starring: | Claude Lafortune |
| Music: | Viviane Audet Robin-Joël Cool Alexis Martin |
| Cinematography: | Hugo Duford-Proulx |
| Editing: | Hugo Duford-Proulx |
| Distributor: | PSLT |
| Runtime: | 80 minutes |
| Country: | Canada |
| Language: | French |
The Paper Man (French: Lafortune en papier, lit. "Lafortune in Paper") is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Tanya Lapointe and released in 2020.[1] The film is a portrait of Claude Lafortune, a paper artist who was an influential personality in Québécois children's television.[2]
Lapointe began making the film in 2018 with an intention to work toward releasing it in 2021 or 2022, but sped up production following Lafortune's death of COVID-19 in April 2020.[3] The film premiered at the 2020 Whistler Film Festival,[4] where it received an honourable mention from the jury for the Whistler Film Festival Documentary Award,[5] and won the Audience Award.[6]