In Miami native Miguel Angel Ferrer’s feature film “The Shadow of the Sun” (“La Sombra del Sol”), the main character Leo is depicted as being reluctant to step outside of his current familiar situation, despite its dreariness, into the future.

A similar hesitance plagued Ferrer, too, as he describes the aha moment when he decided to make his movie that would go on to win numerous film festival awards and was selected as Venezuela’s official entry for Best International Film in the 2024 Academy Awards. With a distribution deal from Outsider Pictures, “The Shadow of the Sun” (“La Sombra del Sol”) is making its U.S. theatrical debut in Miami movie theaters opening Friday, Aug. 8.

It was the closing night of the Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival (LALIFF) in 2021, recalls Ferrer.

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