This autobiographical documentary revisits the Mau Mau Rebellion of the 1950s. More than 50 years after the conflict, in which the director participated as a young British soldier stationed in Kenya for his national service, he confronts his past with audacity and unflinching self-inquiry. Combining McWilliams' own photographic record of the times with original animation and archival imagery, A Time There Was crafts a thoughtful account of the Mau Mau Rebellion - one of the most contentious episodes in Britain's imperial endgame.


direction
Donald McWilliams

editing
Donald McWilliams

narration
Donald McWilliams

camera
James Aquila

sound recordist
Karen Feiertag

participation
Mwaria Njuma
John Nottingham
Achrroo Kapila

camera
John Walker

animation
Marcy Page
Randall Finnerty

drawing
Gail Lamarche

animation camera
Pierre Landry
Thea Pratt

sound editing
Oana Suteu

original music
Kevin Dean

studio recording
Geoffrey Mitchell
Luc Léger
Matthew Thomson
Sylvain Cajelais

re-recording
Jean Paul Vialard

picture research
Elizabeth Klinck
Karen Feiertag
Donald McWilliams

music research
Elizabeth Klinck
Karen Feiertag
Donald McWilliams

producer
Marcy Page
Adam Symansky

Source
www.onf.ca/film/time_there_was_stories_from_the_last_days