TAC Fest 2004 Pages
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A young indigenous painter that uses natural dyes and linens extracted from trees proposes to find blue dye in the Peruvian Amazon. This search wakes the desire to preserve the culture of his village and to improve the current conditions of his people through their own capacity to steer their destinies.
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Length: 52 min.
Country: Peru
Language: Spanish with English subtitles
Producer: Fernando Valdivia, Pedro Noguchi
Distributor: Teleandes Producciones
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In her quest to explore the healing powers of plants, an American herbalist ventures into the rainforest of Belize where she befriends one of the last remaining Maya shamans, Don Elijo Panti. While learning his secrets during her apprenticeship, she unearths her life's work: to preserve this ancient knowledge and to bridge the gap between science and traditional healing wisdom. Funded by the National Cancer Institute in New York, Rosita Arvigo is in a race against time, scouring the tropical rainforests of Central America in search of cures for many deadly diseases before they are wiped out by deforestation.
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Length: 20 min.
Country: Belize, USA
Language: English
Producer: Guido Verweyen and Eva Langsdorff
Distributor: Documentary Educational ResourcesFestival Screenings and Awards:
Previously Screened At: DOCtober, 2001;
Slamdance Film Festival, Utah, 2002;
Palm Springs Native American Film Festival, 2002;
Academy Foundations Screening Series, UCLA, 2002;
Battleboro Environmental Film Festival, Vermont, 2003;
Big Bear International Film Festival, 2003; Latino Film Festival, San Francisco, 2003
Telly Award: Kineon International Festival of Archaeological Film, Brussels, 2002
Best of Show: Platinum Aurora Award Winner, 2003
International Sasa Award: Environmental Film Festival, Italy, 2003
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This film recounts twelve years of interdisciplinary excavation and reconstruction work done in the ancient Anatolian city of Sagalassos, the most important excavation site in the Eastern Mediterranean region. Film material, on-location interviews, special effects and 3D computer graphics allow the viewer to discover the history of this prosperous city. Sagalassos was the capital of Pisidia, successively occupied by Greek, Roman, and Byzantine populations, destroyed by an earthquake in the 7th century and abandoned, to be eventually forgotten.
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Length: 52 min.
Country: Belgium
Language: English
Producer: Philippe Axell
Distributor: Axell Communication
Festival Screenings and Awards:
Previously Screened At:
Kineon International Festival of Archaeological Film, Festival, Brussels, 2003
Toulouse Archaeological Film Festival, France, 2003
Grand Prize; Nyon International Archaeological Film Festival, 2003
Second Place Rovereto Archaeological Film Festival, 2003
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This film is the summation of twenty years of research that examines the deep enigmas present in the massive prehistoric remains found in Chaco Canyon in northwestern New Mexico. Between AD 850 and 1150, the Chacoan people designed and constructed massive ceremonial buildings in a complex celestial pattern throughout a vast desert region. Aerial and time lapse footage, computer modeling, and interviews with scholars show how the Chacoan culture designed, oriented, and located its major buildings in relationship to the sun and the moon.
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Length: 57 min.
Country: USA
Language: English
Producer: Anna Sofaer, The Solstice Project
Distributor: Bullfrog Films
Festival Screenings and Awards:
Previously Screened At: Taos Talking Picture Festival; Aboriginal Voices Festival, Toronto; Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival; Heard Museum Indigenous Film Festival
Bronze Plaque: Columbus International Film & Video Festival
Silver Plaque: The Chicago International Television Competition
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At the heart of the gigantic Tarim river basin of China stretches the immense sandy desert of Taklamakan. For ten years a Franco-Chinese team has been excavating in this cold desert in search of buried cities. In October 2001, the expedition unearthed five remarkably well-preserved mummies. This quest for vanished cities takes us on a fabulous adventure, on the trail of a two thousand year old story, across the oases of the ancient Silk Road, which was a commercial caravan route along which Buddhism spread to China in the 1st century AD.
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Length: 52 min.
Country: France
Language: English
Producer: Gedeon Programmes
Distributor: Terranoa
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Kurtal-Snake Spirit follows the journey of Spider, an 80-year-old Aboriginal elder, as he travels with his family to his birthplace in the Great Sandy Desert of Western Australia to visit Kurtal, a sacred waterhole. Here, he communicates with his ancestors through Kurtal, the Snake Spirit.
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Length: 28 min.
Country: Australia
Language: English
Producer: Nicole Ma
Distributor: Documentary Educational Resources
Festival Screenings and Awards:Previously Screened At: forumdoc.bh.2003, Documentary & Ethnographic Film Festival of Belo Horizante, Brazil, 2003
Shown On: Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 2003
Best Indigenous Resource, Best Short Form Documentary: Australian Teacher's of Media Awards, 2002
Best Documentary: Religion Today, International Festival of Cinema & Religion, Italy, 2003
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National Geographic Ultimate Explorer: Iraq's Lost Treasure follows Lisa Ling and a National Geographic film crew through the immediate post-war Iraq as they investigate looting of the Iraq Museum. The team navigates the dangerous road into Baghdad and meets with Museum officials and the US team of expert investigators charged with recovering the stolen and lost artifacts, gaining exclusive access to the inner area of the museum and to the internal workings of the inquiry itself. Remarkably, the team also plays a key role in the recovery of the Treasure of Nimrud from the basement vault of Iraq's National Bank.
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Length: 57 min.
Country: USA
Language: English
Producer: Jason Williams, National Geographic Film & Television, USA
Distributor: National Geographic
Festival Screenings and Awards:
Shown on: National Geographic Ultimate Explorer
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Pompeii has come to life again thanks to 3D visual restoration. The spectator is led to discover the many rooms of the home of Julius Polybius in full detail, including the exact position of everyday objects precisely as they were in the minutes before the explosion of the volcano.
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Length: 8 min.
Country: Italy
Language: no narration
Producer: Altair 4 Multimedia S.R.L.
Distributor: Altair 4 Multimedia S.R.L.
Festival Screenings and Awards:
Special Mention: AGON Fourth International Meeting of Archaeological Films Produced in the Mediterranean Area, Athens, 2002
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Ancient Pompeii, a 150 acre walled city in southern Italy, was destroyed and covered by volcanic material when nearby Mt. Vesuvius erupted in AD 79. A complete city block, once inhabited by patricians, slaves and merchants, is now the focus of research and conservation by the Archaeological Sciences Dept. of the University of Bradford. This film describes how the recently created Pompeii Trust is attempting to preserve this important piece of history for future generations.
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Length: 10 min.
Country: USA
Language: English
Producer: Black Cat Productions (Arthur and Jennifer Stephens)
Distributor: Black Cat Productions (Arthur and Jennifer Stephens)
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This film follows archaeologist Dr. Charles Higham from New Zealand as he explores Angkorian temples that have not been researched in over 40 years. These temples, located in northern Cambodia, have been surrounded by land mines and therefore inaccessible. With the help of de-miners, Dr. Higham travels deep into land mine territory to explore these temples.
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Length: 52 min.
Country: Singapore, USA
Language: English
Producer: Live Art International/Dean LoveProducer Web Site: http://www.deanlove.com
Distributor: National Geographic Television
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Shown On: National Geographic Television