"Peanut Butter" Feature Film / Lead Role, Jamie
Peanut Butter is a coming-of-age film about the ambiguity of pre-pubescence and the lessons kids learn in the in-between spaces of growing up. Set over a single, humid New Orleans summer, the story follows Jamie (12) as he navigates questions about attraction, sexuality, and what it means to grow up alongside his friends Sam and Jules. The film opens with a physical moment between Jamie and Jules, setting the tone for the ambiguous tension that lingers throughout the summer. Jamie, a mixed-race boy living in his late father’s hometown, feels a closeness with his friends that blurs the lines between friendship and something more. As he explores who he is as a mixed-race boy, he also begins to question who and what he is drawn to, and what that might mean. Peanut Butter is a dramatically funny and tender film about the fleeting freedom of childhood summers, the ambiguity of early attractions, and the bittersweet realization that nothing in life is permanent, and that’s okay.
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A mixed-race boy navigating the turbulence of early adolescence. At a formative time in his life without a father figure, he struggles to make sense of identity, masculinity, and first love. His attractions are fluid, his emotions raw, and his understanding of self still forming, making him a poignant, complex lens through which the story explores the beauty and confusion of growing up as an outsider in his father’s childhood home on the West Bank of New Orleans.
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