Paul Tom is a Canadian documentary filmmaker, most noted for his films Baggage (Bagages) and Alone (Seuls).
[1] Born to Cambodian parents in a refugee camp in Thailand, Tom came to Canada with his family in childhood.
[2] He studied communications and media at the Université du Québec à Montréal, and animation at Concordia University,[3] 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.
Following its television broadcast on Télé-Québec 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).