Beba – ALLIANCE OF WOMEN FILM JOURNALISTS

BEBA – Review by Leslie Combemale

June 14, 2022June 16, 2022 Leslie Combemale autobiographical documentary, Beba, documentary, Rebeca “Beba” Huntt

Beba presents a woman of color who is neither famous nor infamous, searching for her identity in her own voice. What makes Beba watchable is viewers get the sense that she is examining her mistakes and her significant role in familial conflict in a multi-dimensional way. That is best exampled by the last lines of the film. She seems genuine in wanting to get her head out of her own ass and take responsibility for her place in the world, something that makes her perspective, and the way she chooses to tell her own story, truly compelling.

Festivals Reviews

BEBA (TIFF 2021) – Review by Alexandra Heller-Nicholas

September 16, 2021September 17, 2021 Alexandra Heller-Nicholas Beba, documentary, Rebeca “Beba” Huntt, TIFF, toronto international film festival

Deeply intimate and unfiltered, Rebeca “Beba” Huntt talks of her experience as an Afro-Latina artist raised in a one-bedroom apartment in New York with her two siblings and her immigrant parents. The documentary speaks explicitly to the intergenerational aspect of trauma linked to race, class and gender. Huntt pushes herself through the search for self in a range of ways, spanning from aggressive to poetic, frequently straddling both simultaneously.