Director Xavier Tera and Producer Jeremy O. Harris Go Global with Venice Breakout ‘The Color of the Sun’

Director Xavier Tera and Producer Jeremy O. Harris Go Global with Venice Breakout ‘The Color of the Sun’

Though set in Okinawa, an island off of the coast of Japan, Venice premiere “The Color of the Sun” is a coming-of-age film of global scale. Directed by photographer-turned-filmmaker Xavier Tera, the FIPRESCI International Critics’ Prize winner for Best Film from Orizzonti reflects the complicated nature of his Québécois upbringing in addition to the decade he has spent working from East Asia. “I grew up in a very strictly French-speaking househo…