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Beba

Generation 14plus 2022
© Sheena Matheiken
“There is nothing honorable about trying to assimilate into a system that is designed to destroy you.”

Rebeca “Beba” Huntt strives to come to terms with the violence that has been inscribed in her DNA for generations. Growing up in New York City as the daughter of a Black father from the Dominican Republic and a fair-skinned mother from Venezuela, she discovers and questions her own identity as an Afro-Latina as well as the role which she subsequently assumes as a student at the renowned Bard College, a predominantly white environment. Private recordings, archive material, interviews, snapshot moments, largely captured on 16mm, offer a beguilingly intimate impression in this relentless self-exploration. A massive, emotionally extreme, dense debut that Huntt worked on for eight years.
by Rebeca Huntt
with Rebeca Huntt USA / Mexico 2021 English, Spanish 79’ Colour Documentary form empfohlen ab 14 Jahren

With

  • Rebeca Huntt (Beba)

Crew

Written and Directed by Rebeca Huntt
Cinematography Sophia Stieglitz
Editing Isabel Freeman
Music Holland Andrews
Sound Design Abraham Chacra
Sound Ricardo Arteaga, Carlos Cortés Navarrete, Ricardo Lavalle Cárdenas
Producer Sofia Geld
Executive Producers Petra Costa, Alyse Ardell Spiegel, Alessandra Orofino, Joy Bryant, Inuka Bacote-Capiga
Co-Producers Nikkia Moulterie, John Hoffman, Isabel Freeman, Sheena Matheiken, Monihan Monihan
Co-Production Bricologista Brooklyn, Mexico City

World sales

NEON

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Produced by

Beba Film

http://www.bebafilm.com/ http://www.bebafilm.com/

Photos

Rebeca Huntt

© Alberto “El Negro” Ibáñez

The writer and director was born in New York City, USA and studied at Bard College in New York State. She has worked as an archival producer for various documentaries and has made short films that have screened at several festivals. Beba is her debut feature-length film.

Filmography

2018 Hay coro; short documentary 2020 1800-Lovable; short documentary 2021 Beba; documentary

Bio- & filmography as of Berlinale 2022