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<DIV>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 <A
href="http://www.archaeologychannel.org/content/BendSeries.shtml">http://www.archaeologychannel.org/content/BendSeries.shtml</A>,
where you can actually see clips from the films.</DIV>
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<DIV>Rick Pettigrew<BR>Archaeological Legacy Institute<BR><A
href="http://www.archaeologychannel.org">www.archaeologychannel.org</A><BR>541-345-5538</DIV>
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<DIV align=center><FONT size=5>ArchaeologyFest Film Series: Best of
2008</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=center>A benefit for <STRONG><EM>The Archaeology
Channel</EM></STRONG><BR>International Film and Video Festival</DIV>
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<DIV align=center>155 Boyle Hall, Central Oregon Community College,
Bend<BR>February 20-21, 2009</DIV>
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<DIV>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.)</DIV>
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<DIV>Program C: Friday, February 20</DIV>
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<DIV>• From Hutong to Highrise: The Transformation of Beijing (China) 21
min.<BR>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.</DIV>
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<DIV>• The Giant Buddhas (Switzerland) 86 min.<BR>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)</DIV>
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<DIV><BR>Program D: Saturday, February 24:</DIV>
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<DIV>• Yamana: Nomads of the Fire (Italy) 52 min. <BR>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)</DIV>
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<DIV>• Komi: A Journey Across the Arctic (France/Germany) 52 min.
<BR>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)</DIV>
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<DIV align=center><FONT size=4>TAC Festival returns to the Soreng
Theater</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>ALI is pleased to announce that the next edition of <STRONG><EM>The
Archaeology Channel</EM></STRONG> 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 <A
href="http://www.archaeologychannel.org/content/TACfestival.shtml">http://www.archaeologychannel.org/content/TACfestival.shtml</A>.<BR></DIV></FONT><br/><font style="color:black;font:normal 10pt arial,san-serif;"> <hr style="margin-top:10px"/>Need a job? <a href="http://yellowpages.aol.com/search?query=employment_agencies&ncid=emlcntusyelp00000003">Find an employment agency near you</a>.</font></DIV></BODY></HTML>