[kj] Death & Resurrection Show Doc

[mattdunn at ntlworld.com]

An ex-friend had an email conversation at the end of last year with Steve Piper who has something to do with it. He can be contacted at coffeedesign.co.uk if anyone was really interested. Anyway, here's the extract from his email that may be of interest:

'The KJ film is an unusual one, it started shooting seriously about 3 years ago funded by the director, Shaun, and Jaz from Killing Joke, they'd known each other for ages so already had a ton of archive footage and by involving the band we got access to most of their catalogue for percentages in the film profit.
 
The project ran out of money about a year ago and maybe 6 months ago I started talking to Shaun and got involved, he was already cutting a trailer etc. for it to show to funders. Because KJ have a decent sized cult fanbase that's a big selling point to an investor; their fans are very "hardcore" and will buy just about anything with a KJ logo on it, so we wanted to make sure they were all aware of the project and hungry for it before hitting the investors.
 
So now we're just starting to hit investors, the trailer has been copied onto numerous blogs, the social nework accounts are gaining friends at a reasonable pace and quite a few distributors etc. have heard about it by word of mouth and come to us, so all round the promotion is helping us close the money we need to edit. There is a risk we're warming the fanbase up too early and they'll have a long wait, but a risk we needed to take; not enough people know who KJ are or what 2012 etc. is about to realise the value of the finished film without some kind of evidence.'