Paul Tom is a Canadian documentary filmmaker, most noted for his films ''
Baggage
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n parents in a refugee camp in
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Quill & Quire
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'', March 2023. He studied communications and media at the
Université du Québec à Montréal
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, and animation at
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La Presse
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'', November 29, 2021. and created the short films ''Que je vive en paix'' in 2011 and ''Un pays de silences'' in 2013.
''Baggage'', his first mid-length documentary, was released in 2017, and centred on a group of immigrant students enrolled in a theatre program. The film won several awards on the film festival circuit, including the prix Télébec for best mid-length film at the 2017
Abitibi-Témiscamingue International Film Festival
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, the Prix Public for Best Canadian Film at the 2017
Quebec City Film Festival
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, and the Women Inmate Jury Award at the 2017
Montreal International Documentary Festival
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. Following its television broadcast on
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in December 2017, it won two Gémeaux Awards in 2018, for Best Documentary Program or Series (Arts and Culture) and Best Direction in a Documentary (Biography, Arts and Culture, Nature, Science or Environment). It was also nominated for Best Writing in a Documentary.
His full-length documentary feature ''Alone'' was released in 2021, and was a
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24th Quebec Cinema Awards
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'' Drunken Birds (Les oiseaux ivres)'' and ''Maria Chapdelaine'' initially rec ...
in 2022. Tom and illustrator Mélanie Baillargé subsequently published a book adaptation of the film, under the French title ''Seuls'' in 2022 and the English title ''Alone: The Journey of Three Young Refugees'' in 2023. The French edition was a
Governor General's Award
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2022 Governor General's Awards
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, and the English translation by
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was nominated for the
Governor General's Award for French to English translation
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