Films do not exist just for entertainment. As a classroom, cinema can offer true learning experiences that change viewers for the better. A particular genre of film with the potential for empathy is documentaries. While still films at home or in a theater, a veil of fiction vanishes. What occurs on-screen during a documentary is something that has, is, or will happen in reality. Merging documentation and personal storytelling is the directorial debut of Rebeca Huntt with “Beba.” After its premiere at the 2021 Toronto International Film Festival, the first trailer for the documentary has arrived.

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Everyone knows someone like Rebeca Huntt. A born-and-bred New Yorker, she came of age in a one-bedroom apartment on the Upper West Side, her family’s pride and joy. Now well into her twenties, she’s figuring out her priorities as an artist and her place in the world. She loves her parents even if they sometimes push her buttons, she couldn’t be closer with her big sister, and she’d die without her crew of friends.

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