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Animation from Spain is attending the Ottawa International Animation Festival’s Tac (The Animation Conference) for the first time this year and has brought with it three of Spain’s hottest up-and-coming animation producers for a roundtable to discuss the current state of Iberian animation and pitch their pipelines to the international and North American markets.

A Spanish government-backed presence at North America’s most important animation festival and the leading indie-dedicated animation event on the global calendar indicates a desire to become a bigger player in Canada and the U.S. while bolstering the country’s global reputation.

International ambitions are being fueled by increased activity in Spain. According to Icex Spain Trade and Investment, the Spanish government body that spearheads this year’s Ottawa involvement, in 2023, Spanish companies produced six animated features, 25 short films and 68 seasons of animated TV series.

Commercial and critically, Spanish animation is also reaching new heights.

Morgana Studios, ReachStar and ReDefine Originals are partnering on the animated feature “Diamante,” set on the lush Caribbean Island of the Dominican Republic.

The film will be directed by Mathieu Ratthé with the screenplay written by Ratthé and Leticia Tonos Paniagua from an original idea by Claudio Lluberes.

Animation will be handled by ReDefine Originals, which is part of Dneg. The producers are casting.

“Diamante” follows young Luisito’s dream of becoming a pro baseball player. He is crushed by his fear of people until he discovers a mysterious power, leading him on a journey alongside an unlikely companion, to learn the true value of friendship, family, and resilience.

Producing are Ratthé, Caroline Desmarais and Steven Thibault for Reachstar, and Miguel Cabañas, Verónica Buide, Claudio Lluberes and Daysi Cruz for Morgana Studios. Executive producing for ReDefine Originals are Greg Gavanski, John Harvey and Daniel Krech.

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Mathieu Ratthe's weekend gone awry flick The Gracefield Incident opened in U.S. cinemas and arrived on Digital HD and On Demand last Friday, July 21st.    Our man down in the MXCity, Eric Ortiz Garcia, had... issues... with the film, but by chance you are interested in all things that go pear shaped when meteorites crash to Earth and wreak havoc on unlucky weekenders then consider the clip below.    Matthew Donovan, a video game editor, embeds an iPhone camera into his prosthetic eye to secretly record and document a weekend with friends in a luxurious mountain top cabin. The weekend takes a terrifying turn when a meteorite crashes the party forcing everyone to face the darkest, screaming nightmare while somehow connecting life, love, and...

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Excessively recording and sharing everyday occurrences on social media has become so routine to so many people that it has restricted their intuition of how to react in emergency situations. That’s certainly the case for the main characters in versatile filmmaker Mathieu Ratthe‘s new found-footage horror film, ‘The Gracefield Incident.’ The protagonists have grown so […]

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"Matthew Donovan (played by Mathieu Ratthe, who's also the film's director) embeds an iPhone camera into his prosthetic eye to secretly record a weekend with friends in a luxurious mountain top cabin”, says the official synopsis for the Canadian/American production The Gracefield Incident. Prosthetic eye plus camera is a silly idea, no doubt, but it’s also one that makes you wonder what the hell you are about to experience. However, Ratthe’s low-budget hybrid soon enters into familiar territory, and even though a lot goes on eventually (marital drama, mystery, horror, sci-fi and so forth), nothing is completely engaging. While the film opens with the genesis of said eye camera notion, and we think it’s going to be a first-person effort, soon it becomes obvious that...

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Director and star Mathieu Ratthe's discusses his new first person horror film

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The first line of Mathieu Ratthe’s horror film The Gracefield Incident is uttered by a character who exasperatedly asks, “Do you have to film everything?” and it’s a question with which audiences can only agree. Yes, we’re back in the realm of found-footage, a genre that the director/screenwriter tries to freshen up with a novel concept that proves far sillier than imaginative.

The film begins with a car accident suffered by video game editor — surely the nation’s biggest growing profession — Matthew (Ratthe) and his pregnant wife Jessica (Kimberly Laferriere) which results in her losing the baby and him...

Canadian director Mathieu Ratthe takes on multiple creative roles in his first feature, the alien invasion thriller The Gracefield Incident, out this Friday in theaters, on demand and digital HD. Besides writing and directing the film, he also stars and edited the project.

I got a chance to speak to him as the film was released and you can find our conversation below.

The Gracefield Incident is about Matthew Donovan, a video game editor, who embeds an iPhone camera into his prosthetic eye to secretly record and document a weekend with friends in a luxurious mountain top cabin. The weekend takes a terrifying turn when a meteorite crashes the party forcing everyone to face the darkest, screaming nightmare while somehow connecting life, love, and loss in a twist of fear. [Continued ...]...

In today's Horror Highlights, we have a Q&A with The Gracefield Incident at Mathieu Ratthe, new stills from Volumes of Blood: Horror Stories, and details on Famous Monsters of Filmland's presence at this year's San Diego Comic-Con.

Thanks for taking the time to answer some questions for us, Mathieu. How and when did you first come up with the idea for The Gracefield Incident?

Mathieu Ratthe: First of all, thank you, Derek, for your interest in our film. I wanted to create a suspenseful story that scared the crap out of the audience, but also made them emotionally involved, which is really tough to do in this kind of movie, but I think we achieved it pretty well in our film.

The conceptual idea (or I liked to call it the “technique”) came after I realized how many days I was given to shoot our film with the budget that I had.

This week will see the release of Mathieu Ratthe’s The Gracefield Incident, a found footage horror film where the camera is embedded into the main character’s eye. The clip below shows two main characters suffering through a potential UFO event… Continue Reading →

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Although it may be hard to believe, it's already been five years since Cavitycolors started releasing eye-popping horror apparel, and they're celebrating this week with a special new enamel pin. In today's Horror Highlights, we also have a trailer and key art for The Gracefield Incident and details on Rlj Entertainment acquiring North American rights to The Osiris Child: Science Fiction Volume 1, starring Kellan Lutz.

Cavitycolors 5-Year Anniversary Pin: "June marks the 5 Year Anniversary of Cavitycolors, and we are celebrating with a very special Enamel Pin release this Thursday, June 15th at 5 Pm est! Set your reminders!

Back when me and Ricki started our brand in the extra bedroom of my mom's house in 2012, I could've never imagined that we'd be where we are today. Cavitycolors originally started as an outlet to release my personal art and prints, and over time, grew into collaborations with incredible new artists, and taking...

Momentum Pictures will release the found footage alien invasion film, The Gracefield Incident, in select theaters and on demand and digital HD on July 21, 2017.

Mathieu Ratthe wrote, directed and stars in the indie science fiction shocker.

Synopsis:

Matthew Donovan, a video game editor, embeds an iPhone camera into his prosthetic eye to secretly record and document a weekend with friends in a luxurious mountain top cabin. The weekend takes a terrifying turn when a meteorite crashes the party forcing everyone to face the darkest, screaming nightmare while somehow connecting life, love, and loss in a twist of fear.

The Gracefield Incident stars Mathieu Ratthe, Kimberly Laferriere, Victor Andres Turgeon-Trelles, Juliette Gosselin, Alexandre Nachi, Laurence [Continued ...]...

"Some things can't be unseen." Holy crap this looks freaky. An official trailer has debuted for a freaky new alien horror movie titled The Gracefield Incident. This is yet another found footage movie, but the twist is that one guy implants a camera into his eye in order to give us a proper Pov view. He does this to capture footage of a weekend getaway with friends to a cabin in the mountains. But one night a meteor crashes down and things get scary when giant alien creatures start tormenting them. Starring Mathieu Ratthe (who also wrote/directed the film), Kimberly Laferriere, Victor Andres Turgeon-Trelles, Juliette Gosselin, Alexandre Nachi, and Laurence Dauphinais. Aliens seriously freak me out, and this looks totally nuts. Here's the first official trailer (+ poster) for Mathieu Ratthe's The Gracefield Incident, from YouTube: The Gracefield Incident tells the story of Matthew Donovan, a video game editor,...

There are so many things that our government, hell, all governments, never tell us. Are aliens real? What was the identity of the third shooter on the grassy knoll? Is my Xbox One's Kinect watching me as I twerk to the Halo soundtrack? We may never know. In any event...

Below you'll find the first trailer and artwork for The Gracefield Incident which was written, produced, edited, and directed by Mathieu Ratthe who also stars. "After 24 months in Saguenay, Quebec, Canada, living in my parents basement, (where my Dad and I built a studio especially for this), I got it done," Ratthe tells us. "The Executives Producers on the film are Bryan Turner, "Priority Records Founder", Pat Brisson, "Head of Hockey at CAA" and Sergei Fedorov, "Ex-NHLer and Future Hall of Famer". They believed in me and without their support, none of this would've been possible."

If there's anything we...