Bands And Banners was made by filmmaker Judi Alston, who set up One to One Productions in 1988 after winning the Barclays Bank award for the "Most Innovative Business Idea in Yorkshire and the Humber". The funding for the film came out of winning a bursary from the Joe Feiweles Memorial Trust which was established the year before in 1990. Judi has stated that, "winning the bursary gave me a feeling of enormous pride”, and that it was, “a significant occasion in my development as a film maker.”
