TAC Fest 2003 Pages
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In Pursuit of Lost Time Conveys the whole adventure of underwater archaeology along the Turkish Coasts since the 1960’s, with footage of the excavations on four wrecks that had been surfaced. The film focuses on the Institute of Nautical Archaeology (INA) excavation of a 9th century Byzantine shipwreck in Selimiye, Turkey. The film portrays the personal views of the diver-archaeologists and the journey of their findings to Bodrum Museum where they are ultimately exhibited.
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Length: 48 min.
Country: Turkey
Distributor: Ajans 21
Contact: Selmin Kara, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Festival Screenings and Awards:
Screened:
AGON, 4th International Meeting of Archaeological Films of the Mediterranean Area, Athens 2002
3rd Archaeology Film Biennial, Toulose, France 2001
12th Rassegna International Archaeology Film Festival, Rovereto, Italy
4th Boston Turkish Festival, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston USA, 1999
Best Film on Excavations
7th Icronos International Archaeology Film Festival, Bordeaux, France, 2002
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Hecho a Mano is a film about a people emerging, through their own impressive efforts, out of a dark past. Living in a nation with a history of severe under representation of indigenous Maya communities, Saul Roblero, a twenty-four year old aspiring Guatemalan journalist, sets off across his nation’s countryside to do what few have done before: have the Maya people tell their own stories! The resulting journey honestly reveals the voices of communities within the greater Maya civilization.
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Length: 27 min.
Country: Guatemala, USA
Distributor: Ryan Polomski
Contact: Ryan Polomski, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Festival Screenings and Awards:
Screened:
University of Texas at Austin, “Latin American Collection,” 2002
Cinema La Dona, San Cristobal, MX 2002
Kai Balam Cultural Center, Quezaltenango Guatemala, 2002
Cinema Texas Film Festival, Austin Texas, 2002
The Crystal Theatre, Missoula MT, 2002
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Through a combination of remarkable detective work and dogged persistence, Mensun Bound rediscovers a ship wreak This ship wreak contains 200 tons of stolen treasure that sank near the Tunisian coastal town of Mahdia. Mensun Bound and his team map the site’s still-sunken treasures, later creating a fascinating digital record of the wreck.
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Length: 52 min.
Country: germany
Distributor: bibo tv
Contact: Kurt Kohlbecker,This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
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This film a monologue about the history of a specific ethnic group in Peru. It shows the perspectives of the ethnic group and shows how they develop their land under their control. The monologue describes the unique vision the people have for their future.
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Length: 8 min.
Country: Peru
Contact: Fernando Valdivia, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Distributor: Teleandes Producciones
Festival Screenings and Awards:
Screened – Shown on TV program ‘Te Quiero Verde’
Shown in the Amazonian Room at the Museo Nacional de Antropologie
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In June 2000, the world media gave extensive coverage to the flooding of the Euphrates due to the construction of dams in Southeast Turkey. As the water rose, it buried Zeugma, an important Roman city, and its high quality mosaics into depths of the Euphrates. Raising debates around sustainable development, the film tells the story of these mosaics as well as that of the people displaced from their towns.
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Length: 26 min.
Country: Turkey
Contact: Selmin Kara, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Distributor: Ajans 21
Festival Screenings and Awards:
Screened:
“Icronos” VIII International Archaeological Film Festival, October, 2002, Bordeaux, France
18th North-South Media Festival, April 2002, Geneva, Switzerland
3rd Kubaba International Archaeology Film Festival, March 2002, Antalya, Turkey
IDFA Docs For Sale, November 2002, The Netherlands
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One thousand years ago, Chaco Canyon was the ceremonial heart of the ancestral Puebloan world. Here, in the midst of a harsh desert, was a cultural oasis. Giant buildings rose like cities from the desert floor. Hundreds of miles of roads converged on Chaco. The descendents of the Chacoans share stories and insights into the past.
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Length: 60 min.
Country: USA
Language: English
Producer: Camera One
Distributor: Camera OneContact: Gray Warriner, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
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In December 2000, La Sierra de Ataperca Heritage was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. This documentary brings us face to face with discoveries made over the last twenty years in the course of excavations and research carried out in the archaeological sites of that mountain range, which remains the only place in the world where the presence of human life has been continuously documented over the last million years.
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Length: 30 min.
Contact: Javier Trueba, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Country: Spain
Producer: Nuria Garcia
Distributor: Madrid Scientific Films
Festival Screenings and Awards:
First Place – Scientific International Film Festival, Malaga, Spain
Honorable Mention – Scientific International Film Festival, Zaragoza, Spain
Selected – Rovereto Festival Italy
Selected – Archaeological International Film Festival, Athens Greece
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In the high deserts of southcentral New Mexico lies Three Rivers, an ancient Native American rock art site where over 10,000 petroglyphs (pecked and incised images) were created by the Jornada Mogollon people between A.D. 900 and 1400. Thirty-five miles away, on the White Sandia Missile Range, the world's first atomic bomb was detonated at the Trinity Site in 1945. The juxtaposition of these two sites points to the striking contrast between the two worlds which created them: one which reveres and lives in harmony with the natural world, and one which, in striving to control the forces of nature, has created a means for its destruction. This animated film explores these opposing forces and their relationship and effect on one another.
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Length: 9 min.
Country: USA
Language: English
Producer: Karen Aqua
Distributor: Karen Aqua
Festival Screenings and Awards:
Stuttgart International Animation Festival, 1998, Germany
Hiroshima International Animation Festival, 1998, Japan
Taos Talking Picture Festival, 1998, New Mexico
Mountainfilm, 1998, Telluride, Colorado
Denver International Film Festival, 1998, Denver, Colorado
American Indian Film Festival, 1998, San Francisco
Other American Film Festival, 1999, San Francisco, California
New York Animation Festival, 1999, New York, New York
Canyonlands Film and Video Festival, 1999, Utah
Toronto Worldwide Short Film Festival, 1999, Toronto, Ontario
Anima Mundi, 1999, Brazil
I Castelli Animati, 1999, Italy
United Nations Association Film Festival, 1999, California
International Exile Film Festival, 2001, Sweden
1st Prize: Humboldt International Film Festival, 1998, California
1st Prize, Animation: Marin County National Festival of Short Films, 1998, California
Film Editing Award: Ann Arbor Film Festival, 1998, Michigan
Best Animation: Utah Short Film & Video Festival, 1998, Utah
Jury Prize: Big Muddy Film Festival, 1998, Illinois
Director's Choice Award: Black Maria Film & Video Festival, 1998
Honorable Mention: New England Film & Video Festival, 1998
Best Environmental Film: Green Extreme Film Festival, 1998, Canada
Animation Award: Smoky Mountain/Nantahala Media Festival, 1999, North Carolina
Charles Samu Award: ASIFA-East Animation Awards,, 1999, New York, New York
Gold Certificate: Prix Leonardo, 1999, Italy
Best Director: Rhode Island International Film Festival, 1999, Rhode Island
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Not far from Somalia and belonging to Yemen, Socotra Island recently was opened to scientific research again after many years as the site of a Soviet naval base. An expedition in January 2002 made an amazing archaeological discovery in the depths of a sanctuary cave. More than one third of Socotra's fauna and flora is endemic and most of it remains unknown. The film unveils some geographical, historical and natural aspects of a mysterious Indian Ocean island that shelters many natural and cultural treasures.
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Length: 53 min.
Country: Belgium
Language: English
Producer: Axell Communication
Distributor: Axell Communication
Festival Screenings and Awards:
Faremma Documentary Festival, Italy
Pennsylvania Film Festival, USA
Special Mention, Icronos Festival, Bordeaux, France
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The American-born filmmaker and her Senegalese husband, Papis, leave the US to travel back to his birthplace where he must undergo the tribe's traditional initiation into manhood. All that is learned in the sacred forest must be kept secret, even from one's spouse.
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Length: 53 min.
Country: USA
Language: English
Producer: Yellow Cat Productions
Distributor: Documentary Educational Resources
Festival Screenings and Awards:
DC Independent Film Festival, 2002, Washington, D.C.
Worldfest, 2002, Houston, Texas
Creative Alliance, 2002, Baltimore, Maryland
UNIFEM Women's Film & Video Festival, 2002, Sarasota, Florida
