I have the fortune of working with the mother of one of the producers and cinematographers of the new film about Norman Porter. I’m pretty excited for her, as her son’s film has won the distinction of Best Documentary from the Boston International Film Festival and is currently drumming up some media attention, from places like GapersBlock and from the Tribune which just gave it three and a half stars. After being convicted of a double murder in Massachusetts, Porter came to Chicago in 1985, changed his name to J.J. Jameson and proceeded to live a life of a Poet.

The film is screening at 8:15 1/29/08 at the Gene Siskel Film Center.