[OR_Archaeology] Bend ArchyFest to continue this weekend with four top films

[RPettigrew at aol.com]

We still have two more evenings to go in our ArchaeologyFest Film  
Series:Best of 2008!  Please come to see some outstanding films and help us  support TAC 
Festival 2009 by enjoying our Central Oregon Community College  mini-festival 
in Boyle Hall Room 155 in Bend on Friday, February 20 and  Saturday, February 
21.  This last batch includes the top award  winners!  Read on below for more 
details on the schedule and films.   Please spread the word where you can.  
We also have this posted at 
_http://www.archaeologychannel.org/content/BendSeries.shtml_ (http://www.archaeologychannel.org/content/BendSeries.shtml) ,  
where you can actually see clips from the films.
 
Rick Pettigrew
Archaeological Legacy Institute
_www.archaeologychannel.org_ (http://www.archaeologychannel.org) 
541-345-5538
 
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ArchaeologyFest Film Series: Best of  2008
 
A benefit for The Archaeology  Channel
International Film and Video Festival
 
155 Boyle Hall, Central Oregon Community College,  Bend
February 20-21, 2009
 
Ticket sales open at 6:30 pm.  Programs begin at 7:30 pm on dates  indicated 
and will conclude by 9:30.  Admission $6.  Tickets available  at the door.  
These are the best films from the 2008 edition of TAC  Festival.  And they are 
VERY GOOD.  (The 2009 edition of TAC Festival  will take place at Eugene's Hult 
Center, May 19-23–see the info at the bottom of  this message.)
 
Program C: Friday, February 20
 
• From Hutong to Highrise: The Transformation of Beijing (China) 21  min.
Beijing, China, is fervently embracing the modern world.  The city  has been 
reinventing itself by replacing its historic urban fabric of narrow  lanes 
(hutong) and courtyard houses (siheyuan) with high-rise buildings and  highways.  
The quest for modernization has, in large, destroyed much of  Beijing’s 
heritage and has disrupted the way of life familiar to  residents.  From Hutong to 
Highrise documents the urgent debate between  residents, preservationists, 
urban planners and developers over the future of  the city.
 
• The Giant Buddhas (Switzerland) 86 min.
In March 2001, two huge  Buddha statues were blown up in the remote area of 
Bamiyan Valley in  Afghanistan.  This dramatic event surrounding the ancient 
stone colossi -  unique proof of a high culture that bloomed until the 13th 
century along the  Silk Road - is the starting point for a cinematic essay on 
fanaticism and faith,  terror and tolerance, ignorance and identity.  Oscar 
nominated director  Christian Frei's thought-provoking film journeys along a 
perimeter that both  divides and unites people and cultures.  (Audience Favorite 
film; Special  Mention by Jury; Honorable Mention for Animation, Script, Music, 
and Inspiration  by Jury)
 

Program D: Saturday, February 24:
 
• Yamana: Nomads of the Fire (Italy) 52 min. 
The Yamana were the  indigenous peoples of Tierra del Fuego, and were at one 
time the guardians of an  extraordinary civilization.  Now extinct, they used 
their ingenious  instinct to survive for thousands of years in an extreme 
land.  They were  dismissed by history, their race’s extinction caused by 
Europeans.  But we  still have much to learn from the Yamana.  Ernesto Piana has spent 
the last  thirty years of his life studying traces of the Yamana, and his 
research is  helping overturn the prejudice and stereotyping the Yamana have 
suffered from  their first encounters with “civilization.”  (Honorable Mention in 
Best  Film competition, Best Animation competition, Most Inspirational 
competition,  and in Script and Cinematography by Jury; Best Narration by Jury; 
Honorable  Mention in Audience Favorite competition)
 
• Komi: A Journey Across the Arctic (France/Germany) 52 min.  
Alexei and Vassili are both Komi, one of the most ancient indigenous peoples  
of Siberia.  They live with their families on the border of the Arctic  
Circle, and are the last reindeer herders of this region, as all other Komi have  
abandoned this highly archaic and exhausting lifestyle.  Each autumn, in  order 
to feed their animals, these two families cross the Urals into Asia to  
escape the intense northern winters, returning again in spring when the weather  is 
temperate.  This film documents their long and perilous four-month  journey 
with their 5,000 reindeer.  (Best Film by Jury; Best Cinematography  by Jury; 
Best Music by Jury; Most Inspirational by Jury; Honorable Mention for  
Narration and Script by Jury; Honorable Mention in Audience Favorite  competition)
 
TAC Festival returns to the Soreng  Theater
 
ALI is pleased to announce that the next edition of The  Archaeology Channel 
International Film and Video Festival will  take place during May 19-23, 2009, 
in the Soreng Theater at the Hult Center for  the Performing Arts in downtown 
Eugene, Oregon.  TAC Festival will bring to  Oregon the world’s best films on 
archaeology and the world of indigenous  peoples.  We also will welcome as 
Keynote Speaker one of the world’s most  celebrated archaeologists, Dr. Zahi 
Hawass, Secretery-General of Egypt’s Supreme  Council of Antiquities.  Please 
join us in welcoming to Eugene the people  of the world for this cinematic 
celebration of the incredibly diverse human  cultural heritage.  Details at 
_http://www.archaeologychannel.org/content/TACfestival.shtml_ 
(http://www.archaeologychannel.org/content/TACfestival.shtml) .

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