Blue Like Jazz: The Movie

A film version of the best-selling Christian book Blue Like Jazz will be screened in Portland this month. The film came about thanks to an odd Internet site called Kickstarter. The site allows people to post ideas for projects that readers can pledge to support. Steve Taylor, who made The Second Chance, set a goal of raising $125,000 through the site for Blue Like Jazz. But by last fall, he had $345,992. That's when a major investor saw the interest in the film and pledged to match that amount. Taylor is now calling everyone who gave $10 or more to thank than them. He's about halfway through a notebook of 3,300 names.