[4][9][10] Paquette started his academic career in the Film & Television Production Program at Trebas Institute, a private, post-secondary college based in Montreal.

In his capacity as such, Paquette lead the creation, development, and implementation of its current, competency-based, four-session program, which received accreditation from the Quebec Ministry of Education in 2005.

[19] In 2012, NOMPCIDC launched Xanadu Studios, an equipment rental depot and post-production facility that services professional film and TV projects in Northern Ontario.

"It's to encourage students that they don't need millions of dollars, big movie stars and huge crews to make films", said Paquette.

Paquette made his professional filmmaking debut with the international award-winning and critically polarizing A Year in the Death of Jack Richards, the first part of his trilogy on "the psychology of romantic love."

This was followed with The Woman of Ahhs: A Self-Portrait by Victoria Fleming, and concludes with The Anonymous Rudy S. In 2012, Paquette unveiled the first of the nine chapters that comprise Perspective, his most innovative and experimental film to date.

Your Name Here features various aspiring actors who reveal their true selves while simultaneously reenacting the Oscar-winning Hollywood classic A Star is Born (1937 film).

[18] Beautiful Accidents is a 2019 Canadian feature-length comedy metafilm adapted and directed by Paquette from an original screenplay by Amanda M. Darling.