{"id":123457,"date":"2020-10-12T17:28:52","date_gmt":"2020-10-12T17:28:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.florentinefilms.com\/sherman\/?page_id=123457"},"modified":"2020-10-13T17:43:59","modified_gmt":"2020-10-13T17:43:59","slug":"background","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.florentinefilms.com\/sherman\/background\/","title":{"rendered":"2LJP background"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;3.22&#8243;][et_pb_row _builder_version=&#8221;3.25&#8243; background_size=&#8221;initial&#8221; background_position=&#8221;top_left&#8221; background_repeat=&#8221;repeat&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;3.25&#8243; custom_padding=&#8221;|||&#8221; custom_padding__hover=&#8221;|||&#8221;][et_pb_image src=&#8221;https:\/\/www.florentinefilms.com\/sherman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Jamie-x2-2.jpg&#8221; alt=&#8221;Photos of Jamie presenting as a man, then after her transition&#8221; title_text=&#8221;Jamie x2&#8243; align=&#8221;center&#8221; admin_label=&#8221;Jamie photo x2&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.6.5&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; width=&#8221;41%&#8221; box_shadow_style=&#8221;preset5&#8243;][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text admin_label=&#8221;professional &#038; personal info&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.6.5&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; text_orientation=&#8221;center&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Married for 30 years with two daughters, Jamie was a successful engineer.<br \/>She built Current TV for Al Gore and Oxygen Media for Gerry Laybourn. She also was a professor at Boston University, a still photographer, filmmaker, and home builder.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Jamie and Roger were classmates at Hampshire College, along with Ken Burns<br \/>and other successful filmmakers and photographers.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5258\" style=\"width: 425px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5258\" class=\"wp-image-5258 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.florentinefilms.com\/sherman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/JP-RS-StonewallIn9.26.16-6-300x278.jpg\" alt=\"Jamie &amp; Roger at Stonewall\" width=\"415\" height=\"385\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5258\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jamie &amp; Roger at The Stonewall Inn<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Jamie&#8217;s transition was difficult for everyone: Her ex-wife, Elaine, tells us, &#8220;The man I was married to for thirty years is now a woman.&#8221; Her younger daughter, Tina, says, &#8220;My dad is gone.&#8221; Her older daughter, Angie, was angry; Jamie came out to her &#8220;in a text.&#8221; And, Doug, her brother once so close they were mistaken for twins, refuses to speak to Jamie.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_button button_url=&#8221;\/sherman\/streaming-worldwide&#8221; button_text=&#8221;Streaming around the world&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.6.5&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221;][\/et_pb_button][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Married for 30 years with two daughters, Jamie was a successful engineer.She built Current TV for Al Gore and Oxygen Media for Gerry Laybourn. She also was a professor at Boston University, a still photographer, filmmaker, and home builder. Jamie and Roger were classmates at Hampshire College, along with Ken Burnsand other successful filmmakers and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"<h5 style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 320%;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><strong><img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6971\" src=\"https:\/\/www.florentinefilms.com\/sherman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Jamie-x2-2-300x214.jpg\" alt=\"Photos of Jamie presenting as a man, then after her transition\" width=\"300\" height=\"214\" \/>The Second Life of Jamie P<br \/><\/strong><\/span><\/h5><h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">A Roger Sherman Film <\/span><\/h1><h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/h1><h2 style=\"text-align: center; padding-bottom: 10px;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/306271512\">watch the trailer<img class=\"aligncenter wp-image-4948 size-full\" style=\"margin: 10px 0;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.florentinefilms.com\/sherman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/JamieInHat.png\" alt=\"Jamie posing in hats\" width=\"968\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/h2><h2>\u00a0<\/h2><h2>\u00a0<\/h2><h2 style=\"text-align: center; padding-top: 10px;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><strong>Jamie Peebles always thought he was a man.<br \/>Until, \"like a bolt of lightning,\" at age 63<br \/>she realized she's a woman.<\/strong><\/span><\/h2><h2>\u00a0<\/h2><h2 style=\"text-align: center; margin-bottom: 10px; color: #ffffff;\"><strong>The\u00a0feature documentary is Jamie's\u00a0personal, revelatory,<br \/>poignant, hilarious,\u00a0<\/strong><strong>and sometimes joyful story<br \/>told through video diaries and intimate, cinema verit\u00e9 filming.<\/strong><\/h2><p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.florentinefilms.com\/sherman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IndieFEST-Merit-Color-1024x542.png\">\u00a0<\/a><\/p><p>Award winning filmmaker Roger Sherman followed Jamie's transition for a year. Friends for 40 years, they were classmates at Hampshire College. Roger follows Jamie's emotional transition for a year, as she finally becomes the female hiding within.\u00a0 Jamie had suppressed all knowledge of misgendering herself.<\/p><p>Transgender issues may have reached America\u2019s consciousness, but they are often misunderstood. <em>The Second Life of Jamie P<\/em>\u00a0shines a light on this critical subject.<\/p><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.florentinefilms.com\/sherman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Big-Apple-Best-doc.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5395\" src=\"http:\/\/www.florentinefilms.com\/sherman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Big-Apple-Best-doc-300x226.jpg\" alt=\"Big Apple Film Festival, Winner, Best Feature Documentary 2019\" width=\"300\" height=\"226\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.florentinefilms.com\/sherman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IndieFEST-Merit-Color-1024x542.png\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5414\" src=\"http:\/\/www.florentinefilms.com\/sherman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IndieFEST-Merit-Color-1024x542-300x159.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"159\" \/><\/a><\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Elaine, Jamie's ex-wife tells us, \u201cThe man I was married to for thirty years is a now a woman.\u201d<br \/>Tina, one of Jamie's daughter\u2019s mourns: \u201cI lost my father.\u201d<br \/>Angie, her other daughter, calls her father out for informing her by text.<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Jamie\u2019s brother Doug, once so close they were mistaken for twins, hasn't spoken to her for two years.<\/strong><\/span><\/p><h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>The Second Life of Jamie P<\/em> is a story about humanity.\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3><p style=\"text-align: center; margin-top: 20px;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><a style=\"background-color: royalblue; padding: 5px 20px; border-radius: 9px; color: #ffffff;\" 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