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<DIV>To our Oregon friends: Did you by any chance miss any of the great
films we showed at <STRONG><EM>The Archaeology Channel </EM></STRONG>Film and
Video Festival 2010 at the Hult Center this past May? You’re in luck,
because our upcoming <EM>ArchaeologyFest Film Series: Best of 2010</EM>, to be
held the first two weekends of August at DIVA in downtown Eugene, will screen
the top seven films from that international competition! So now you can
see what you missed. Please come and sample these films and help support
TAC Festival. You’ll be amazed at how good these films are. They are
indeed the best in the world in this genre.</DIV>
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<DIV>One of my personal favorites is the first film, <EM>Chumpi’s
Adventure</EM>, a beautifully filmed production from Peru about a little boy
whose father and grandfather take him to their sacred waterfall in the
Amazon. Almost like <EM>Avatar</EM> in real life, but without the
violence!</DIV>
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<DIV>Please see the announcement just below, which includes the awards won by
each film at TAC Festival 2010. Details also are posted at <A href="http://www.archaeologychannel.org/content/ArchaeologyFest2010.shtml">http://www.archaeologychannel.org/content/ArchaeologyFest2010.shtml</A><A title=http://www.archaeologychannel.org/ href="http://www.archaeologychannel.org/"></A>, including clips from the
films. Thanks! <BR> <BR>Rick Pettigrew<BR>Archaeological Legacy
Institute<BR><A title=http://www.archaeologychannel.org/ href="http://www.archaeologychannel.org/">www.archaeologychannel.org</A><BR> <BR>******************************************************************************</DIV>
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<DIV align=center><FONT size=5>ArchaeologyFest Film Series: <BR>Best of
2010</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=center>A benefit for <STRONG><EM>The Archaeology
Channel<BR></EM></STRONG>International Film and Video Festival</DIV>
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<DIV>Downtown Initiative for the Visual Arts (DIVA),<BR>110 W. Broadway,
Eugene<BR>August 6/7 and 13/14, 2010</DIV>
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<DIV>Doors open one-half hour before the start times indicated below.
Admission $6. Tickets at the door. These are the best films from the
2010 edition of TAC Festival.</DIV>
<DIV><BR>Program A: Friday, August 6, 8:15 pm</DIV>
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<DIV>• <EM>Chumpi's Adventure</EM> (Peru) 47 min.<BR> This film
focuses on the lives of three generations of Achuar, who live in the Peruvian
Amazon. A young boy, Chumpi, his father, Secha, and his grandfather, Irar,
make an upriver trip to a sacred waterfall, where both adults received their
visions as young men. They travel through the tropical rainforest in an
adventure into the spiritual world of these indigenous people. Their
journey gives insight into the Achuar culture, as they try to continue their
traditions while facing conflicts with oil companies and the encroaching
industrial world. (Special Mention by Jury; Honorable Mention by Jury for
Script, Cinematography, and Inspiration)</DIV>
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<DIV>• <EM>Lost Nation: The Ioway</EM> (USA) 57 min.<BR> In 1824,
during the twilight of Native American dominion, two conflicted Ioway leaders
met with William Clark, one of the principals of the earlier Lewis and Clark
Expedition, to sign a momentous treaty. White Cloud saw cooperation as
survival for his people, while Great Walker regretted the loss of their
ancestral homeland. This pivotal moment led both men to different tragic
destinies in their battle with epic change. Ioway Elders join historians and
archaeologists to tell the dramatic and true story of the small tribe that once
claimed the territory between the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers from
Pipestone, Minnesota, to St. Louis. What was a quest for survival in the
past has become a struggle to retain a unique Native American culture and
language in the present. (Honorable Mention by Jury in the Best Film
competition)</DIV>
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<DIV>Program B: Saturday, August 7, 7:30 pm</DIV>
<DIV><BR>• <EM>Life in Limbo</EM> (USA) 40 min. <BR> This film paints
a portrait of life in the town of Hasankeyf, in southeastern Turkey, adramatic
town of caves located near the borders of Iraq and Syria. It has been inhabited
since the 9th Century B.C. and is considered an archaeological treasure because
it is the finest example of a medieval city in the region. Hasankeyf has endured
upheavals through the centuries but it now faces a seemingly insurmountable
threat to its survival; a proposed dam on the Tigris River that will submerge
the town. Through a combination of verite scenes, lyrical landscape images and
interviews, Hasankeyf is revealed as a town of long traditions, an
archaeological treasure and finally, a community that is fated to be destroyed.
(Honorable Mention in the Audience Favorite competition; Honorable Mention by
Jury in the Best Film competition, Cinematography, and Music)</DIV>
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<DIV>• <EM>Stone Age Artists: The Magdalenian Masters</EM> (France) 52
min.<BR> The inception of art in prehistoric times is a much debated
issue. Some believe it coincides with a revolution of the mind, which is
thought to have started about 40,000 years ago. Others think it is the
result of gradual evolution that began with the very first human beings, some
two million years ago. Our forefathers gradually devoted more and more
time to art, decorating their objects and their places of residence. As
for the Magdalenians, ancestors that settled in large areas of Europe between
18,000 and 10,000 years B.C., art was amazingly developed. The sculpted
bas-relief of the Roc-aux-Sorciers site in southwestern France is proof that a
golden age of prehistory did actually exist. For the first time ever, this
film reveals Lascaux Cave, a showcase that suggests that the Stone Age may well
have had its share of “Michelangelos.” (Best Script by Jury; Honorable Mention
in the Audience Favorite competition; Honorable Mention by Jury in the Best Film
competition, Narration, Animation, Cinematography, and Inspiration)</DIV>
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<DIV>Program C: Friday, August 13, 7:30 pm</DIV>
<DIV><BR>• <EM>Standing with Stones</EM> (UK) 135 min.<BR> Produced
and directed by documentary film-maker Michael Bott and presented by naturalist
and explorer Rupert Soskin, this is a first-hand account from Rupert of a
journey taken through the British Isles and Ireland, starting at the tip of
Cornwall and ending on the Scottish Isles, visiting more than 100 Neolithic and
Bronze age monuments en route. Beautiful to look at and aiming to be
enlightening, the film explores the diversity and wonder of these extraordinary
enigmatic structures. It also looks at some of the explanations and
absurdities which attach to them. Rupert Soskin has a deep knowledge of
the subject, but also a refreshingly open-minded attitude to the whos, the hows
and especially the whys of the stone construction. The entire project was
conceived and realized entirely by Michael Bott and Rupert Soskin, with a
camera, a camper van, two very understanding wives, and a passion for stones.
(Best Narration by Jury; Most Inspirational by Jury; Honorable Mention in the
Audience Favorite competition; Honorable Mention by Jury in the Best Film
competition, Animation, Script, and Music)</DIV>
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<DIV>Program D: Saturday, August 14, 7:30 pm</DIV>
<DIV><BR>• <EM>Herculaneum: Diaries of Darkness and Light</EM> (Italy) 52
min.<BR> This film tells the story of the excavations at Herculaneum,
following Amedeo Maiuri, the archaeologist who in little more than 30 years
brought to light the Roman city, which had been destroyed along with Pompeii by
the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79. Today, two-thirds of the ancient
city still lies under the modern city of Ercolano. In order to continue
the excavations, large parts of the modern city would have to be knocked down,
as Maiuri had started to do a few years before his death. The diaries of
Maiuri, together with interviews and unseen footage, lead us in the discovery of
the archaeological site and invite us to consider the relationship that humans
have with their past along with our desire to discover it, to understand it and
to preserve it in time. </DIV>
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<DIV>• <EM>Paddle Ship “Patris”Lost in 1868...</EM> (Greece) 63
min.<BR> This documentary concerns the historic steam engine paddle
ship Patris, which sank in 1868. This type of boat is unique because it
used wheels for movement. It was manufactured at a time before the advent
of the screw propeller, when most ships were made of wood. This particular
boat was one of very few made of metal and for this reason it was
preserved. It was a luxurious vessel that had a paddle-wheel steam engine,
but also had sails. Patris was property of “Hellenic Steam Navigation
Company,” the first coastal shipping company that was founded in Greece.
The film was made with the collaboration of the Museum of Industrial Heritage of
Syros, subordinate to the Municipality of Syros, Greece, and the Greek Ministry
of Culture, the National Institute of Research, the Department of Underwater
Antiquities, and the Underwater Filming Research (UFR) diving team. (Best Film
by Jury; Best Cinematography by Jury; Honorable Mention by Jury for Narration,
Animation, Special Effects, Script, Music, and
Inspiration)<BR></DIV></DIV></DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>