In her debut documentary writer-director Rebeca Huntt examines the details of her Afro Latina heritage to provocative effect.

| Jul 1, 2022

Turning the lens on herself in ways in which we rarely see women of color do, first-time feature filmmaker Rebecca “Beba” Huntt exhibits a vulnerability that is incredibly brave.

| Jun 24, 2022

A virtuoso bomb-drop of a documentary.

| Original Score: B+ | Jun 24, 2022

The filmmaker delves into all of who she is, including darker or more destructive aspects of her identity, pushing viewers to see Huntt’s complexity — and perhaps their own.

| Jun 24, 2022

“Beba” is an intimate film with a grand scope; Huntt recognizes herself and her family as characters in a mighty drama.

| Jun 22, 2022

While this is a work to reveal the illusion of meta narratives, it’s also an outpouring of love and truth, one that documents a movement with a keen eye.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jun 21, 2022

Not everyone can take their own life and spin it into something meaningful to outsiders. Rebeca Huntt spent years making sense of her past, and the resulting essay film is a revelation.

| Jun 15, 2022

The first-time director does an excellent job looking back at the painful moments in her life.

| Sep 24, 2021

A gorgeous visual memoir laced with poetry, memory, and truth.

| Sep 21, 2021

In the telling of her own story, Huntt in Beba is necessarily telling the stories of others, too, and ultimately it is that focus on how things interconnect - not just individuals, but histories themselves - that render Beba such a fascinating experience

| Sep 17, 2021

"Beba" is a fascinating self-journal, a work about family, isolation, existing within America, and existing as who you are, that takes no prisoners and leaves plenty of casualties.

| Original Score: B+ | Sep 15, 2021

There is a rich, dense texture to this very questioning, personal film.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 15, 2021

[An] absorbing experimental documentary about a young woman's journey to find herself.

| Sep 15, 2021

A captivating snapshot of a young artist trying to make sense of her complicated self.

| Sep 15, 2021