[OR_Archaeology] TAC Festival starts May 18 in Eugene

[RPettigrew at aol.com]

Only six days to go!  TAC Festival 2010 runs from Tuesday, May  18, through 
Saturday, May 22.  Please participate in this event and share  this 
information throughout your networks.  The best form of promotion is  word of 
mouth, so if you feel that this event is worth keeping, tell people  about it and 
ask them to do the same.  We do newspaper ads and TV spots and  so forth, 
but by themselves they won’t do the job.  Here are some key  pieces of 
information about the Festival:  

Egyptian sailing ships!  Stone Age artists!  Lost empires!   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 
18th at the Hult Center in Eugene, Oregon. 
 
TAC Festival is the only juried competition for cultural 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 32 countries submitted 100 entries for this year’s seventh  
season.  The top 19 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 18 through May 22.  These  films 
will cover topics such as megalith sites in the British Isles, an ancient  
Egyptian sailing ship, journeys to sacred waterfalls in the Amazon, the 
mystery  of what killed the megafauna, exquisite cave art, and more. Seven of the  
competing films already have won awards at international film festivals,  
including the student competition at Cannes.  Two others have been honored  
at other international competitions and four films will be premiered at our  
Festival.
 
The Keynote Speaker this year will be Dr. Jon Erlandson, the North American 
 archaeologist who is the chief proponent of the Kelp Highway hypothesis on 
the  peopling of the Americas.  After decades of research, Dr. Erlandson 
has  explored topics ranging from the First Americans to the history of  
seafaring.  He is currently the Director of the Museum of Natural and  Cultural 
History at the University of Oregon.
 
Tickets are available from the Hult Center (541-682-500).
 
>From the banner at the top of the TAC Home Page at 
_http://www.archaeologychannel.org/_ (http://www.archaeologychannel.org/) ,  you can download our 
30-second (and very cool) promo video as well as our PDF  flyer and share 
these with your friends.  There on the Home Page also you  can see our TAC 
Festival 2010 Preview video, with clips of all the films.
 
For a complete list of films (with film clips to watch), ticket prices, the 
 schedule, and more information, log on to 
_http://www.archaeologychannel.org/content/TACfestival.shtml_ 
(http://www.archaeologychannel.org/content/TACfestival.shtml) .   There you also will 
find a link (“Download our Program Grid”) for downloading  the complete layout 
of the times and places for all the events and films.   Respond by e-mail 
here if you have questions.
 
We hope to see you there!  Thanks very much.
 
Rick  

Richard M.  (Rick) Pettigrew, Ph.D., RPA
President and Executive  Director
Archaeological Legacy Institute
4147 E. Amazon Dr.
Eugene, OR  97405
USA
RPettigrew at aol.com
_www.archaeologychannel.org_ (http://www.archaeologychannel.org/) 
541-345-5538
541-338-3109  (fax)
Skype: rick.pettigrew
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