FROM: MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF PORTLAND TO: ALL MEDIA SUBJECT: SECOND ANNIVERSARY OF THE DEATH OF JAMES CHASSE DATE: SEPTEMBER 8 2008 September 17 marks the second anniversary of the beating death of James Chasse. On a late Sunday afternoon, September 17, 2006, James Chasse Jr., walking home from a Northwest church, was attacked by […]
A fundraising benefit for the making of the documentary film Alien Boy is in the works for the Wonder Ballroom on September 18th. Mark your calendar now. Alien Boy is a documentary film being produced by the Mental Health Association of Portland. The film will document the life and death of James Chasse. We’ll have […]
From the Portland Tribune, May 17, 2008 “Alien Boy,” a local documentary about a schizophrenic man who died in police custody in 2006 has been dragged into a legal tug-of-war between the victim’s family and the city of Portland. Portland filmmaker Brian Lindstrom has only just begun shooting the project, which focuses on the life […]
From Joanne Zuhl of Street Roots, May 11, 2008 Portland filmmakers set out to document the life and death of James P. Chasse Jr. On Sept. 17, 2006, in a tony Pearl District neighborhood, in the sights of police officers who saw something they viewed as “odd,” James P. Chasse Jr. stepped out of time. […]
LISTEN TO “Policing the Mentally Ill” (24MB MP3) – broadcast March 17, 2008 In September of 2006, a schizophrenic man named James Chasse died in police custody, sending shockwaves throughout Portland and the state. At the time, Mayor Potter promised an overhaul of the system that failed Chasse. A year and a half later, the […]
By Shawn Levy, The Oregonian, February 18, 2008 One of the greatest and most inspiring surprises for me last year was “Finding Normal,” a gripping and moving documentary by local filmmaker Brian Lindstrom, who went deep into the world of recovering addicts and turned up an amazing fly-on-the-wall portrait of the addicts and the peer […]
Finding Normal, a documentary film by Brian Lindstrom, will be shown at City Hall on Friday, February 1 at 1 PM. The showing is free. Coming straight out of prison or detox, recovering addicts struggle to stay clean and sober in the city of Portland. Thanks to the Recovery Mentor program of Central City Concern, […]
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