''Project Ithaca'' is a 2019 Canadian science fiction thriller film directed by Nicholas Humphries and starring

James Gallanders James Gallanders (born February 9, 1970) is a Canadian actor. He studied at York University's Faculty of Fine Arts. Career Born in Scarborough, Ontario, Canada, Gallanders began appearing on several television series before receiving his first ...

Plot

The film begins in a secret government lab run by the U.S. War Department, where a mysterious young girl is shown interfacing with alien technology recovered during the

Roswell UFO incident The Roswell incident was an event that occurred in 1947, pertaining to the recovery of mundane metallic and rubber debris from a military balloon that crashed near Corona, New Mexico by United States Army Air Forces officers from Roswell Army ...

. The young girl has strong telepathic abilities, and is able to relate her experiences in the alien device by typing them out on a computer monitor. The girl, called Sera, begins to die due to her interaction with the machine, and is rescued by a researcher named John. The film then switches to a diverse group of humans aboard a UFO orbiting Earth, where the group is being held against their will. Each human is restrained separately, in a harness where their arms and legs are restrained by black tentacles. The tentacles tighten as they resist, and the energy created by their emotional responses is harnessed by the ship. When the humans fail to have enough emotional responses to provide energy for the ship, the ship responds by sending larger tentacles into the room, which envelop their heads and create a direct telepathic link with the ship, and they are taunted into responding emotionally. It is revealed that each of the humans was abducted during different periods in Earth's history, ranging from the 20th to the 21st century, and that Sera is a human-alien hybrid whose mother was impregnated back at the Roswell encounter. None of the group know what the current year is, nor do they know how long they’ve been on the ship. Most of the group are merely regarded as missing people back on Earth, except for Zack, a famous musician of his time whose disappearance led to his girlfriend being convicted of his “murder”. Sera and John determine that Sera, who can interface with the ship in the present as well as the past, can free the humans on the ship, but only by sacrificing herself. Despite John’s protests, she frees the groups and they return to Earth, where they begin walking toward a city in the distance. Sera is then shown directly linked to the ships computer. The ship uses Sera to “open the door” to more of the ships, which then arrive in Earth's solar system. In a mid-credits scene, Sera unsuccessfully attempts to contact John on the computer monitor in the past.

Cast

as John Brighton *Konima Parkinson-Jones as Rhonda Woods *Alex Woods as Zack Chase *

Deragh Campbell Deragh Campbell is a Canadian actress and filmmaker. She is known for her acclaimed performances in independent Canadian cinema. Her collaborations with filmmaker Sofia Bohdanowicz—'' Never Eat Alone'' (2016), '' Veslemøy's Song'' (2018), '' M ...

as Sera *

Daniel Fathers Daniel Fathers (born 23 March 1966) is an English actor. In 2018, Fathers joined the cast of '' Snatch'' (Sony Pictures Television) as a series regular (Season 2), starring opposite Rupert Grint, as the American Gangster Clarence Perry. Shot in ...

as Perry Bulmer *Caroline Raynaud as Alex Gauthier

Release

The film was released in select theaters and VOD in the United States on 7 June 2019.

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* * {{EngvarB, date=March 2021 Alien abduction films Canadian science fiction thriller films English-language Canadian films 2010s science fiction thriller films 2019 films 2019 science fiction films 2019 thriller films Saban Films films 2010s English-language films 2010s Canadian films