[kj] Death & Resurrection Show Doc

[Darren A. Peace]

Al-Jazeera, obviously.

Darren
Hungerford, UK



On 12 Apr 2010, at 15:03, Paul Wady <paulwady at hotmail.com> wrote:


> Hmmm.  Who to approach?

>

> FORTEAN TIMES - Pretty obvious choice.  Enough said?

>

> NATURE CHANNEL - Witness the lives of strange, wild creatures that  

> mankind has little understanding of?  See the tribes use of strange  

> mystic herbs and rhythmic drum beats.

>

> HISTORY CHANNEL - These boys changed everything, bravely going over  

> the top and facing thousands of fans armed only with guitars, drum  

> kits and make up.  History turned on their words, and nearly ended  

> at one point.  Iceland everyone, run!

>

> GEOGRAPHY CHANNEL - Well look where they travel in the film.

>

> Suggestions?

>

>

>

>

>

> > Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2010 13:16:24 +0100

> > From: mattdunn at ntlworld.com

> > To: gathering at misera.net

> > Subject: [kj] Death & Resurrection Show Doc

> >

> > 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.'

> >

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