The Tall Boy takes Trinidad and Tobago to Cannes Film Festival

YOU’VE seen them everywhere – at the side of the road getting people’s attention for businesses, at car shows, in movies, in commercials, on videos on the internet – those inflatable human-like figures with arms and body flailing about wildly.

But did you know the idea was dreamed up by Trinidad and Tobago’s very own artist and masman Peter Minshall?

Very few people do, which is the point of The Tall Boy, the documentary which won best documentary at the 2025 Diversity in Cannes Short Film and Webseries Showcase in Cannes, France on May 19.

It was also one of the two films screened on May 21 at the first ever Caribbean Day, hosted by Pavillon Afriques at the Cannes International Film Festival.

Simon Baptiste, producer of The Tall Boy, said the documentary was an ode to Minshall, whose work was used by major productions around the world and helped put TT on the map. Read More