Beba
New York Premiere

Beba

Tribeca Critics' Week
Feature | United States | 88 MINUTES | English, Spanish | English CLOSED CAPTIONS
New York, Women, Documentary, Biography

An intimate, impressionistic coming of age tale, Beba is a bildungsroman for the modern era. We follow Afro-Latina filmmaker Rebeca Hunt, the titular Beba, as she takes us on the journey through her experience growing up as “the poorest people on the Upper West Side.” As we watch Beba mature, we experience all the disparate experiences that make up her personhood, from General Trujillo’s ethnic cleansing of father’s homeland of the Dominican Republic to the ivy-marked walls of white privilege at Bard College. Throughout it all, Beba remains at the center, struggling to reckon with the world around her and find her place in it. 


Beba, like its heroine and filmmaker, defies genre and categorization, pivoting from experimental art house film to brutally raw documentary within a frame. It’s at once a quintessentially New York story—that of the first generation immigrant family in search of the American Dream—and completely singular, casting an unflinching yet artistic eye at one woman’s journey as she reckons with historical, societal, and intergenerational trauma. Nominated for the Crystal Bear at the Berlin Film Festival, Beba proves that the more specific a story we tell, the more universal an experience we share.--Chris Murphy


Cast & Credits
Directed by
Rebeca Huntt

Rebeca Huntt is an Afro-Latina writer and director born and raised in New York City. She wrote and directed her first feature, Beba, which will be released by NEON in 2022. Rebeca was included in DOC NYC's 40 under 40 list and participated in The Gotham Documentary Lab. Rebeca is repped by UTA.

Director
Rebeca Huntt
Producer
Rebeca Huntt, Sofia Geld
Screenwriter
Rebeca Huntt
Cinematographer
Sophia Stieglitz
Composer
Holland Andrews
Editor
Isabel Freeman
Executive Producer
Inuka Bacote-Capiga, Joy Bryant, Petra Costa, Alessandra Orofino, Alyse Ardell Spiegel
Associate Producer
Rashad T. Bailey, Amanda Naseem, Malaika Woluchem
Co-Producer
Isabel Freeman, John Hoffman, Sheena Matheiken, Maximón Monihan, Nikkia Moulterie
US Distributor
NEON Rated
Cast
Rebeca Huntt

Contacts
Print Source
Sara Cushman
NEON Rated
New York, New York 10012
Phone: 805 453 4273
sara@neonrated.com
Press Contact
Molly Bandelli
NEON Rated
New York, NY 10012
Phone: 732 646 0033
molly.bandelli@neonrated.com
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