Le film Lafortune en papier centré sur la vie de l’animateur et sculpteur de papier québécois Claude Lafortune sera présenté dimanche dans le cadre du Festival de cinéma THIRD ACTion à Calgary.
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Still from ‘The Paper Man’
When Tanya Lapointe set out to make a documentary on Claude Lafortune, Quebec’s Mr. Rogers, she had no idea her film would become the swansong for The Paper Man, who passed away in April 2020.
Lapointe grew up watching Lafortune’s popular children’s programming, where he made complex sculptures entirely of paper. But as the story of Lafortune’s life and career unfolded in the process of filming
The Paper Man, Lapointe realized that like his art, the TV icon was more complex than he appeared.
“What surprised me was the layers there were to Claude Lafortune,” Lapointe told
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by Craig Takeuchi on December 28th, 2020 at 10:45 AM 1 of 3 2 of 3
A documentary profile of a Québécois folk artist and a feature drama about a woman on an unwavering mission for justice resonated the most with viewers at a B.C. film festival this month.
Audiences at this year s Whistler Film Festival voted for their picks for the 2020 Whistler Film Festival audience award.
The runnerup was
Marlene, a historical drama directed by Wendy Hill-Tout. In this true story, Kristin Booth portrays Marlene Truscott, the wife of Steven Truscott who devoted decades of her life to legally proving that her husband was not guilty of a rape and murder he didn’t commit.