'Beba' director Rebeca Huntt reflects on her life, from her Afro-Latina heritage to generational trauma.
, is an honest self-portrait documentary that follows Huntt through the growth of her 20s as she explores her Afro-Latina identity while navigating the depths of historical, societal, and generational trauma., Huntt brings the viewer into her most introspective, diaristic thoughts about her childhood and adolescence in New York City as the daughter of a Dominican father and Venezuelan mother.
The first part of the process had a lot more to do with the writing and how I wanted this character to just come across. You know, in a way, this film was like me fighting for some kind of freedom, and so it was just being as honest and not trying to be some kind of archetype. This is an unexceptional story about a young Afro-Latina in New York. So that, I knew.
You’re the director and the writer, but you're also the main subject behind this documentary. Did you feel any pressure along the way, wearing all these hats while being exposed at the same time? One of the things that I was sort of navigating and exploring in the film was the ancestral inheritance, and also the mental and emotional inheritance and behavioral inheritance that's passed down. So it was important to be able to see those dynamics played out on screen., to me, felt like a series of journal entries based on existential questions and identity searching.
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