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<DIV>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:
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<DIV>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 <STRONG><EM>The Archaeology Channel</EM></STRONG> International Film and
Video Festival, opening May 18th at the Hult Center in Eugene, Oregon. </DIV>
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<DIV>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. </DIV>
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<DIV>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.</DIV>
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<DIV>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.</DIV>
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<DIV>Tickets are available from the Hult Center (541-682-500).</DIV>
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<DIV>From the banner at the top of the TAC Home Page at <A title=http://www.archaeologychannel.org/ href="http://www.archaeologychannel.org/">http://www.archaeologychannel.org/</A>,
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.</DIV>
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<DIV>For a complete list of films (with film clips to watch), ticket prices, the
schedule, and more information, log on to <BR><A title=http://www.archaeologychannel.org/content/TACfestival.shtml href="http://www.archaeologychannel.org/content/TACfestival.shtml">http://www.archaeologychannel.org/content/TACfestival.shtml</A>.
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.</DIV>
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<DIV>We hope to see you there! Thanks very much.</DIV>
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<DIV>Rick
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<DIV><FONT lang=0 size=1 face=Arial FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="8">Richard M.
(Rick) Pettigrew, Ph.D., RPA<BR>President and Executive
Director<BR>Archaeological Legacy Institute<BR>4147 E. Amazon Dr.<BR>Eugene, OR
97405<BR>USA<BR>RPettigrew@aol.com<BR><A title=http://www.archaeologychannel.org/ href="http://www.archaeologychannel.org/">www.archaeologychannel.org</A><BR>541-345-5538<BR>541-338-3109
(fax)<BR>Skype: rick.pettigrew</FONT></DIV></DIV></DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>