Yesterday, producers of the documentary announced sales of some of frontman Martin Phillipps’ music archive, and other material from the band had raised enough money to finish the film to a technical level high enough for it to be shown at film festivals around the world.
Fire Records spokeswoman Jenna Jones said with one day left in the campaign it was hoped more money could be raised to boost the film’s marketing budget.
Chills fans could buy everything from signed copies of the band’s 1986 compilation album Kaleidoscope World on vinyl and opportunities to have their name in the film’s credits to limited edition silver versions of the 2015 Silver Bullets album.
They now hoped to raise $65,000 for the film’s trailer, and $70,000 to hire a United States publicist, Ms Jones said.
Phillipps said he was relieved the target had been reached.
"We feel relief. It is great they can now do all they hoped to do with the movie and maintain the vision and standard they had when they started."
He had been pleasantly surprised by the level of interest and response to the campaign.
"There has been some really lovely, personal comments wishing me luck and how good it is to see the band moving forward again and that has been very touching."
The film is scheduled for release in 2019.
