You have seen the stars and red carpet glamour of the Cannes Film Festival through the lenses of photographers, TV cameras and mobile phones. Now you can get a backstage look at the life and not always so glamorous work of one of the hard-working red carpet photographers in the new documentary A Photographer in Cannes , which world premieres in the Special Screenings program of the 30th edition of the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival ( PÖFF ) in Estonia.

Fitting the premiere location, the man taking the spotlight, while at the same time snapping pictures of the celebrities in it, is none other than Erlend Štaub, Estonia’s man on film festival carpets – both red, such as at Cannes and Berlin, or black, in the case of PÖFF . In fact, he has been the official photographer of the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival for several years.

A Photographer in Cannes comes from director and cinematographer Kullar Vilmne, who co-wrote the film with editor Erik Norkroos.…