was a short film released in 2007. It is probably the best science fiction film you have never seen. The screenplay was written by Jerome Bixby from his death bed. The film was produced for about $200,000 and was filmed over one week at a single location in the California desert with no special effects. The film has been described as “intellectual sci-fy.

It is a simple conversation by a small group of college professors gathered for an impromptu goodbye party at the home of one of their colleges who has mysteriously resigned. However the story is anything but simple. Professor John Oldman reluctantly reveals that he was born in Magdalenian Europe some 14,000 years ago and has survived by ‘moving on’ every few years when people begin to notice that he does not age.

The film was screened at the San Diego Comic-Con Film Festival in July 2007 and released on DVD later that year. However the film really became popular through peer to peer file sharing and has become something of a ‘cult classic’. So much so that a crowd funding program has financed a sequel, The Man From Earth: Holocene, which has been making the rounds at several film festivals and will premier in New York and Los Angeles on October 13.

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