The film Once Upon A Time When We Were Colored was directed by Tim Reid who is an American actor, comedian and film director best known for his roles in prime time American television programs. The film re-creates the world of a black community in the rural South in the years from 1946 to 1962, as hardline segregation gradually fell to the assault of the civil rights movement. A young boy known Cliff is living under the care of Al Freeman Jr. as great-grandfather Poppa and Paula Kelly as great-grandmother Pearl, and is starting to notice the world around him. It isn't a pretty one for African Americans in the South, and over the span of 16 years, Cliff gets introduced to segregation. But hope finally arises when his close-knit community bands
