Tanya Lapointe

Tanya Lapointe is an Oscar-nominated Canadian producer, filmmaker and former journalist, most known for her work on the Dune trilogy and the 2020 documentary film The Paper Man. A longtime 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.