'One to One: John and Yoko' - from Concept to Clearance?
One to One: John and Yoko is an immersive film made almost entirely from archive material, which won the FOCAL Award Music category in 2025. This discussion reviews all aspects of the material in the film from the restored concert footage that initiated the production through to the obscure TV clips that illustrate the wider world that John and Yoko were watching at that time.
James McDonald
James is the founder of Shanakee Archive Agency; a team of archive producers working across a slate of feature docs, docu-series and dramas.
Hannah Ratcliffe
Hannah is an archive producer with Shanakee Archive Agency. She was the lead archive producer on One to One and has also worked on other feature documentaries in the genres of music, history, current affairs, and true crime as well as on drama productions.
Kevin Macdonald
One of the country's best known documentary directors, Kevin has extensive experience working with archival footage in a diversity of styles. His films include Oscar-winning One Day in September, BAFTA-winning Touching the Void, the ground-breaking Life in a Day and musician portraits Marley and Whitney.
Simon Hilton
Simon is a GRAMMY Award-winning art director, film director, editor, writer and multidisciplinary creative based in London. He has worked with Yoko Ono for over twenty-three years, managing hers and John Lennon’s multimedia archive, online presences and physical production for Lennon. Since 2016, in collaboration with Yoko and Sean Ono Lennon he directed, edited, produced and consulted on numerous films and videos for John & Yoko.
