Other Titles • Once Upon a Time... When We Were Colored
Trivia from Once Upon a Time... When We Were Colored (1995)
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A BET Pictures presentation of a United Image Entertainment production. Director Tim Reid was co-founder of United Image Entertainment.
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Color by DeLuxe.
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The film cost $2.5 million to make and was shot in 28 days.
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Winner of: the Best Feature Film award at the Worldfest Houston Film Festival; the Audience Award for the Most Popular Film at the Hawaii International Film Festival; the Special Jury Prize for Direction in a Feature Debut at the Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival; and the Audience Choice "Best of the Fest" award at the St. Louis Film Festival.
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Shown at the 1996 Palm Springs, Chicago, and Ft. Lauderdale Film Festivals.
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Released theatrically in New York City January 26, 1996.
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Additional cast: Beatrice Bush (Lurlean).
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According to director Tim Reid, his film was rejected by every major Hollywood studio, because its coming-of-age themes were deemed to be "too soft". Says Reid, "The view of us perpetuated by Hollywood and the press is that of a dysfunctional, angry, frustrated populace prone to violence and self-destruction. Along comes a movie that says we are human, that we're compassionate, that we care for our children and our culture. That's [seen as] subversive."
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