Arkhaios Film Festival Screening

About the Festival

Join the FCM on Thursday, October 15, from 5:00 – 7:00 pm, for a free screening of an official selection from The Arkhaios Cultural Heritage & Archaeology Film Festival. Founded in 2013, Arkhaios exists to showcase the discovery of past cultures gained from ethnological or archaeological research, illustrated by documentary films. The FCM will be showing a single film this year, but attendees can screen any number of additional Arkhaiois selections online for free at the Arkhaios website during the week of October 12th – 18th. The evening agenda will be as follows:

05:05 PM – 05:15 PM
Guest Arrive | Enjoy Refreshments

05:15 PM – 05:30 PM
Introduction of the Festival: Chip Helms & Uschi Jeffcoat

05:35 PM – 05:50 PM
Connections to the Museum Collection

06:00 PM – 06:45 PM
Film Screening Begins

06:50 PM – 07:00 PM
Close

The Arkhaios Film Festival is sponsored by the SC Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology (SCIAA) and the Department of Anthropology of the University of South Carolina, and the Welsch Tract Historic Properties Association, in South Carolina, and in Pennsylvania by the Department of Anthropology of the University of Pittsburgh, and the Allegheny Chapter #1 of the Society for Pennsylvania Archaeology.

About the Film

Drain the Oceans: The First Americans– 44 mins.
Director Chris Thorburn, Producer Crispin Sadler, Mallinson Sadler Productions, (United Kingdom)

At the end of the last Ice Age, the first humans migrated into the Americas. Some believe they traveled overland, but now archaeologists are looking to the coast. And what does a 13,000-year-old skeleton found in the Mexican jungle tell us about these people and their world? By draining a deep, underground cave, we reveal the new science rewriting the epic story of the first humans to live in the New World.