Poster to director Rebeca Huntt’s TIFF doc ‘Beba’
Now online is the poster to the remarkable coming-of-age documentary/cinematic memoir BEBA, from first-time feature filmmaker Rebeca “Beba” Huntt as she undertakes an unflinching exploration of her own identity. The film will have its world premiere at the 2021 Toronto International Film Festival.
Reflecting on her childhood and adolescence in New York City as the daughter of a Dominican father and Venezuelan mother, Huntt investigates the historical, societal, and generational trauma she’s inherited and ponders how those ancient wounds have shaped her, while simultaneously considering the universal truths that connect us all as humans. At the same time, she eagerly searches for a way to forge her own creative path amid a landscape of intense racial and political unrest. Poetic, powerful and profound, BEBA is a courageous, deeply human self-portrait of an Afro-Latina artist hungry for knowledge and yearning for connection.
Rebeca Huntt is an Afro-Latina Writer/Director born and raised in New York City. She wrote and directed her first feature-length film, BEBA, which is set to have it's world premiere at Toronto International Film Festival 2021. She premiered her short film “1-800 Lovable” at the 2020 BlackStar Film Festival, and has also screened at Oaxaca Film Festival, The Tide Film Festival, Athena Film Festival, Art of Brooklyn Film Festival, and The Fader Magazine. Her first short film “Hay Coro!” screens recurrently on BronxNet Public Television’s After hours program. Rebeca participated in the 2019 IFP documentary lab and the 56th Annual New York Film Festival’s Artist Academy. Rebeca also worked as an Archival producer for various documentaries produced by Hulu, The Fader, and PBS. She was a UnionDocs Collaborative Fellow in 2018. Rebeca received her BA from Bard College in 2012.