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invite you to submit entries now for the 2010 edition
of The Archaeology Channel International
Film and Video Festival. This is the only international
competition for this genre in the entire Western Hemisphere
and a wonderful showcase for your work. Our deadline for
receipt of entries is October 15, 2009. TAC Festival 2010
takes place May 18-22, 2010, in the Soreng Theater of
the Hult Center for the Performing Arts here in Eugene,
Oregon, USA. To enter, please use our entry
form with the Festival entry guidelines. Please read
the guidelines carefully. We require entries with
signatures, which may be sent through the regular
postal mail or as electronic (signed) copies, via e-mail
(either in Microsoft Word or Adobe PDF) or fax.
For TAC Festival 2009, we received 87 entries from
25 countries and selected 18 to screen in the Soreng
Theater. We also made all entries available for viewing
at individual viewing stations through our Video Bar.
By all measures, this was our best group of films in
the history of TAC Festival, which began in 2003. In
this coming year, we hope to continue the trend toward
ever-improving film quality. We also welcome High Definition
entries on Blu-ray discs. We look forward to the opportunity
to show HD films to our Festival audience.
Here are some important facts about our entry regulations
and procedures:
• We rely on you for information about the film.
So please be very careful to enter the correct film
title as well as the correct information for crediting
the film makers.
• We accept all entries, regardless of the topic.
Be advised, however, that if your topic does not relate
to the human cultural heritage or the human past or
the investigation of such subjects, it will be at a
serious disadvantage in the competition.
• We can accept a variety of formats for entries.
We accept both PAL and NTSC. We accept VHS tapes, DVDs,
mini-DV tapes, and even Blu-ray discs. But please make
sure that your mini-DV tapes are in the DV standard
and not DVCAM. We do not
use Betacam-SP.
• To be fair to smaller producers, we have a limit
of two entries per producer. By “producer”
we mean the person or group of persons who directly
made the film. However, it is perfectly acceptable for
a distribution company to submit films from two or three
or more different producers, as long as these producers
are separately identified and credited.
• Entrant distributors must provide assurance
through their signature that the producers of the entered
films have agreed to their entry in TAC Festival.
• Films must have been produced in 2003 or later.
• You must complete the Film Summary and Film
History sections.
• If you want your review copy returned, you must
provide a mailing envelope with correct postage affixed
to it.
• If your film is selected for screening, we will
ask you comply with our standard for screener copies,
which is mini-DV in DV (not
DVCAM) format, or a Blu-ray disc for HD.
• If you are interested in making your film available
for sale to our Festival audience, please inform us
of that and let us know the purchase procedures. If
you would like us to assist you in making your film
available for sale, please contact us so we can discuss
ways to accomplish that.
Please do not delay in sending your
entries! Consider that a flood of entries in the last
week will slow down our review and notification process,
so you can help us a great deal by sending your entries
now. In previous years, some entries regrettably were
rejected because of errors in entry forms or problems
with the film review copies. If you allow plenty of
time for these problems to be resolved, you can help
assure that you will not be excluded from consideration.
Also, we encourage you to make plans to attend the Festival
to represent your films and also to participate in our
Symposium on Heritage Film.
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