[OR_Archaeology] TAC Festival 2011 coming: a world competition

[RPettigrew at aol.com]

To our Oregon Archaeology colleagues:
 
 
 
The oldest Egyptian pyramid!  The real mines of Solomon!  Ancient  cities 
in the desert!  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 24th at  The Shedd 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 reenactments, powerful 
storytelling  and amazing digital effects. 
 
Producers from 20 countries submitted 69 entries for this year’s eighth  
season.  The top 18 films, from leading film producers worldwide, will be  
shown on the big screen in the Recital Hall at The Shedd in downtown Eugene,  
from May 24 through May 28.  These films will cover topics such as  
Stonehenge, the world’s oldest portable sculpture, a young girl who fell in love  
with the moon, a mysterious sea cave on the south coast of Chile, vanishing  
traces of old Beijing, and more.  Three of the competing films already have  
won awards at international film festivals.
 
The Keynote Speaker this year will be Dr. Tom King, the principal  
archaeologist in the longstanding effort to learn what happened to famed  aviatrix 
Amelia Earhart.  This research effort, focusing on a small Pacific  island, 
was featured in December 2010 by Discovery in a two-hour TV  special.  Dr. 
King, an outstanding presenter, will describe his work, which  has yielded 
solid evidence that may lead to a resolution of the Amelia Earhart  mystery.
 
Tickets now are on sale directly by Archaeological Legacy Institute (ALI),  
with special pricing before May 1.  So save money and reserve them  now!  
The Recital Hall seats only 200.  To reserve your tickets, call  ALI at 
541-345-5538, fax to 541-338-3109 or e-mail _filmfest at archaeologychannel.org_ 
(mailto:filmfest at archaeologychannel.org) .   Reserved tickets may be picked up 
at our will-call table at The Shedd during  Festival Week.
 
For a complete list of films, ticket prices (reduced from last year), the  
schedule, and more information, log on to 
_http://www.archaeologychannel.org/content/TACfestival.shtml_ 
(http://www.archaeologychannel.org/content/TACfestival.shtml) .
 
Respond by e-mail here if you have questions.
 
One more thing.  Please participate in this event and share this  
information throughout your networks with everyone who likes film and has  
imagination about distant cultures and times long past.  The best form of  promotion 
is word of mouth, so if you feel that this event is worth keeping in  our 
community and in our state, tell people about it and ask them to do the  same.  
We do newspaper ads, flyers, and so forth, but by themselves they  won’t do 
the job.  And we will have no TV ads this year.
 

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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