[OR_Archaeology] TAC Festival this week with great films and Zahi Hawass. Please support it!

[RPettigrew at aol.com]

To our friends in Oregon: 
 
This is the week!  TAC Festival 2009 runs from Tuesday, May 19,  through 
Saturday, May 23.  If you can, please participate in this event and  spread 
the news throughout your networks.  Your support is needed to help  us 
continue TAC Festival in coming years, so help us pack the house!  Here  is part of 
a press release we prepared to get the word out:
 
Decoding Maya glyphs.  Mysterious mummies.  The real  Timbuktu.  Druids, 
rituals and sacrifices.  The latest discoveries  from the chief archaeologist 
of Egypt.  All this and more will thrill the  audience as the top films in 
the world compete during The  Archaeology Channel International Film and 
Video Festival, opening  May 19th at the Hult Center in Eugene, Oregon. 
 
TAC Festival is the only juried competition of heritage films in the  
Western Hemisphere. The five-day event celebrates the wonders of human diversity  
with award-winning films from around the world.  Topics that range from  
archaeology and ancient cultures to indigenous peoples and their environments  
will come alive with historic re-enactments, powerful storytelling and 
amazing  digital effects. 
 
Producers from 25 countries submitted 87 entries for this year’s sixth  
season.  The top 18 films, from leading film producers worldwide, will be  
shown on the big screen at the Soreng Theater in the Hult Center for the  
Performing Arts in downtown Eugene, from May 19 through May 23.  These  films will 
cover topics ranging from a sophisticated calculating machine found  in an 
ancient Greek shipwreck to wonderful 10,000-year-old cave paintings in the  
remote Borneo forest, Peruvian villagers fearful of ancestors watching them 
from  looming ruins, and indigenous forest dwellers making first contact 
with the  outside work in 2004, among many others.  Six of the competing films  
already have won awards at international film festivals.
 
The Keynote Speaker this year, appearing Friday evening, May 22, will be  
Dr. Zahi Hawass, the chief archaeologists of Egypt.  After decades of  
research on the most significant archaeological projects in Egypt and dozens of  
appearances on television, Dr Hawass has become the most familiar face in the 
 world of archaeology.  His most recent newsworthy project is the  
excavation, currently in progress, to find the tombs of Antony and  Cleopatra.
 
Ticket prices range from $5 to $30 and are available from the Hult Center  
(541-682-500).
 
For a complete list of films, prices and more information, log on to 
_http://www.archaeologychannel.org/content/TACfestival.shtml_ 
(http://www.archaeologychannel.org/content/TACfestival.shtml) .
 
The full film schedule, including the Dr. Hawass talk Friday night, also is 
 appended below
 
We hope to see you there!  Thanks very much.
 
Rick Pettigrew
Archaeological Legacy Institute
_www.archaeologychannel.org_ (http://www.archaeologychannel.org/) 
_rick at archaeologychannel.org_ (mailto:rick at archaeologychannel.org) 
(541)  345-5538
 
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TAC Festival 2009
 
Film Screening Schedule
 
Tuesday, 19 May 2009
 
6:30 pm  Opening Ceremony
6:50-8:11  Guédelon: The  First Ten Years (Germany)
8:18-9:11  Uncle Sem and the Bosnian  Dream (Italy)
9:18-9:48  The Passion of Memory: Arslantepe, Turkey  (Italy)
 
Wednesday, 20 May 2009
 
6:20 pm  Introductions
6:30-8:27  Breaking the Maya  Code (USA)
8:34-9:27  Island Home Country  (Australia)
9:27-9:41  The Antikythera Mechanism: Decoding an  Ancient Greek Mystery 
(UK)
 
Thursday, 21 May 2009
 
6:20 pm  Introductions
6:30-7:24  From Grief and Joy  We Sing (USA)
7:31-8:19  From Honey to Ashes  (USA)
8:26-9:14  Timbuktu (USA)
9:21-9:47  Treasures  of the Fitzwilliam Museum (UK)
 
Friday, 22 May 2009
 
6:20 pm  Introductions
6:30-7:23  The Last Romans  (Belgium)
7:30-8:25  Secrets of the Parthenon  (USA)
8:32-9:32  Keynote Address by Dr. Zahi Hawass
 
Saturday, 23 May 2009
 
Session 1
 
10:50 pm  Introductions
11:00-11:53  The Mummy Who  Came In From the Cold (France)
12:00-12:53  The Twilight of the  Celts (Switzerland)
1:00-1:53  Borneo: The Memory of Caves  (France)
 
1:53-3:00  Lunch Break
 
Session 2:
 
3:00-3:53  Rapayan (Canada)
4:00-4:53  Twilight of a  Land (Canada)
5:00-5:48  Guge: The Lost Kingdom of Tibet  (Singapore)

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