About the Film
Alien Boy: the Death and Life of James Chasse is a feature-length documentary film about the life and death of James Chasse.
Supporters of the Mental Health Association of Portland believe artworks can mend and educate in areas where politics, law and medicine routinely fail. With this belief the organization hired Oregon filmmaker Brian Lindstrom to make Alien Boy: the Death and Life of James Chasse.
Alien Boy is Brian Lindstrom has made two feature-length documentaries, Kicking, about drug detoxification, and Finding Normal, about recovery from drug addiction.
John Campbell, cinematographer of Alien Boy, is a veteran cameraman with credits on dozens of Hollywood films, including two with Gus Van Sant, Mala Noche and My Own Private Idaho.
Charlie Campbell composed the score and select additional music for the film. Charlie is a semi-retired rock musician most famous for fronting the band Pond. He now creates music for TV and movies, including Full Grown Men and Winter’s Passing.
Our writer is Matt Davis, an investigative reporter with The Lens, a non-profit newsroom in New Orleans. He was news editor of The Portland Mercury until 2010.
Andrew Saunderson is Alien Boy’s Co-Editor and Associate Producer. He joined the production team in 2008 while a student at Lewis & Clark College and quickly established himself as indispensable. He was Assistant Editor on the feature-length documentary To Pay My Way With Stories (2009) and the award-winning narrative/documentary hybrid Old Town Diary (2010).
Jason Renaud, a founding board member of the Mental Health Association of Portlandhttp://www.mentalhealthportland.org/, is the producer of Alien Boy
CLICK HERE to read the comprehensive archive of what happened to James Chasse.