FESTIVAL EVENTS
Tony Palmer

For the 2020 Festival we worked with the Harrogate Advertiser's Graham Chalmers in helping bring celebrated music documentary filmmaker Tony Palmer to Harrogate. He appeared at the Cold Bath brewery Clubhouse where an hour long Q&A was followed by a rare screening of his 1977 Beatles documentary - "Mighty Good". 

The evening event was filmed and a feature-length documentary film titled "All We Got Was Love" was completed.
 

"All We Got Was Love" - screened 20 July 2021.

The première screening of this documentary about music documentary filmmaker Tony Palmer took place at 2pm on Tuesday 20th July 2021 at the Everyman, Harrogate. The filmmakers were joined after the screening by Tony Palmer for a discussion and Q&A about the film. The event was hosted by the Harrogate Advertiser's Graham Chalmers.

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Background

On 12th March 2020, Tony Palmer appeared at a screening event at the Cold Bath Brewery, co-sponsored by Harrogate Film Festival, Harrogate Film Society, and Graham Chalmers of the Harrogate Advertiser to talk about his filmmaking career, including his time collaborating with John Lennon and the Beatles. A team of filmmakers recorded Tony's visit to Harrogate. The filmmakers then visited Tony at his home in London in September 2020 and recorded a further interview with him. All of the film material has now been edited into a 97 minute documentary.

The occasion in March 2020 turned out to be the last big cultural event in Harrogate before the lockdown and so it seemed particularly appropriate to have marked the easing of the restrictions with this screening on 20th July 2021.

This work produced much more material than could be used in the main film and as a result, the producers have assembled a number of short vignettes taken from the cutting room. These short films provide further wonderful insights into Tony's career and projects he worked on.
 
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