This film presents a 40 year chronicle of research by Smithsonian scientists, whose work uncovered one of America’s most surprising anthropological mysteries: the story of the early ocean-adapted, Native American civilization that once existed along the now submerged Atlantic coastlines of North America, going back to the last Ice Age. The story, offered with a Native American perspective, places this discovery in the context of the world’s poorly understood, pre-Neolithic maritime revolution and shows how the oceans and their changing environments have shaped the development of cultures over millennia.
Length: 120 min
Country: USA
Language: English
Director: T.W.Timreck
Producer(s): T.W Timreck
The Archaeology Channel
International Film Festival
Exploring the human cultural legacy on screen!
May 15 - 19, 2024
Film Festival Screenings
Recital Hall, The Shedd Institute, Eugene, Oregon, USA
May 16 - 19, 2024
TAC Festival begins officially with the Festival Banquet, Wednesday evening, May 15, 2024. This is followed by four days of juried films and videos on archaeological and indigenous topics:
- Thursday evening, May 16
- Friday evening, May 17
- Saturday, May 18: morning, afternoon and evening
- Sunday, May 19: morning, afternoon and evening
Other activities will include:
- Saturday Social, the evening of Saturday, May 18
- Awards Reception Sunday evening, May 19
Local information:
Festival Mission
To exhibit for our audience the wonderful diversity of human cultures past and present in the exploration of our place in history and in our world. To promote and celebrate the genre and the makers of all audiovisual cultural heritage media.
2024 Selected Films
- Ancient Sea Peoples of The North Atlantic
- Angkor: The Lost Empire of Cambodia
- Bone Stories
- A Bronze Halberd: A Symbol of Civilizational Change
- Diving in Aegean History
- Diving into History: 50 Years of Exploring Our Maritime Heritage
- Doggerland
- The Enigma of Keros
- Fall of the Maya Kings
- Finding Enok: Coping with Our Colonial Past
- Francisco Albo: Greek Seamen in the First Voyage Around the World
- Homeland Story
- In Search of the Lost Music of Antiquity
- Incas: The New Story
- Neanderthal: The First Artist
- Neanderthal: In the Footsteps of Another Humanity
- Notre-Dame de Paris: Preventive Excavation at the Transept Crossing
- Ocean One K: Archaeologist of the Abyss
- Odyssea
- Old Drystones: First Farmers of the Mountains
- Sala 5: Raphael’s Cartoon Room
- Shoals and Shipwrecks of Port Royal Sound
- The Soul of a Man
- They Never Left: Indigenous Reclamation and Return in the Southeast
- The Time They Spent Here
- When the Romans Called upon Their Gods: Grafitti Dedicated to the God Mercury
- Wonder of Andalusia: Medina Azahara
Keynote Speaker 2024:
Dennis Jenkins, Senior Research Associate II (Emeritus), Museum of Natural and Cultural History, University of Oregon
Tickets
Tickets for film screenings at The Shedd Institute, Sheffer Recital Hall, are free and will be available in the Cole Gallery.
TAC Festival Banquet
An important social event at TAC Festival is the Festival Banquet, which takes place the evening of May 15, 2024, 6-9 pm, at the Gordon Hotel. The Banquet fee is $65 per plate. This is the venue for our Keynote Address. Registration for this event is accomplished through our Banquet Registration Form.
Sponsors for the 2024 TAC International Film Festival
(To become a Sponsor for the 2024 TAC International Film Festival, contact us at
Dr. William Maier and Kathy Black
Drew L. Johnson, P.C.
The Archaeology Channel
International Film Festival
Exploring the human cultural legacy on screen!
May 17 - 21, 2023
Conference on Cultural Heritage Media
Civic Winery, 50 E.11th Ave, Eugene, Oregon, USA
May 20, 2023
Film Festival Screenings
Recital Hall, The Shedd Institute, Eugene, Oregon, USA
May 18 - 21, 2023
TAC Festival begins officially with the Festival Banquet, Wednesday evening, May 17, 2023. This is followed by four days of juried films and videos on archaeological and indigenous topics:
- Thursday evening, May 18
- Friday evening, May 19
- Saturday, May 20: morning, afternoon and evening
- Sunday, May 21: morning, afternoon and evening
Simultaneously, The Archaeology Channel Conference on Cultural Heritage Media will be held on Saturday, May 20.
Other activities will include:
- Saturday Social, the evening of Saturday, May 20
- Awards Reception Sunday evening, May 21
Local information:
Festival Mission
To exhibit for our audience the wonderful diversity of human cultures past and present in the exploration of our place in history and in our world. To promote and celebrate the genre and the makers of all audiovisual cultural heritage media.
Selected Films
- Beloved
- Burnt City
- Detached
- Music Sets You Free: A Story of Musical Notes, Imprisonment, Horrors and Hopes
- A Gallarus Story
- Into the Paleolithic: Nomads of the Rhone Valley of France
- Ladies and Princes of Prehistory
- Mamody: The Last Baobab Digger
- Montaigne and the Mysterious Tomb
- The Mystery of the Cosquer Cave
- The New Whistler of Aas
- Persepolis - Chicago
- Peru: Sacrifices in the Kingdom of Chimor
- Pico Reja
- Pink Pottery
- Pompeii: The Secret of the Villa of Civita Giuliana
- Run Raven Run
- Sagrada Familia: Gaudi's Challenge
- Shepherds of the Earth
- The True Story of Pirates
- The Tumuk Humak Expedition
- Unpacking the Universe: The Making of an Exhibition
Keynote Speaker (Wednesday evening at the Festival Banquet in the Gordon Hotel):
Nick Card, Director of the Ness of Brodgar Project, University of Highlands and Islands Institute of Archaeology
Tickets
Tickets for film screenings at The Shedd Institute, Sheffer Recital Hall, are free and will be available in the Cole Gallery.
Tickets for single Conference presentations and full-day Conference passes will be available at the door. Full Conference registration ($130); Single Presentation Pass ($10); Full Day Pass ($50); . For more information about the Conference on Cultural Heritage Media and Registration, Click here.
TAC Festival Banquet
An important social event at TAC Festival is the Festival Banquet, which takes place the evening of May 17, 2023, 6-9 pm, at the Gordon Hotel. The Banquet fee is $65. This is the venue for our Keynote Address. Registration for this event is accomplished through our Banquet Registration Form (PDF).
Sponsors for the 2023 TAC International Film Festival
(To become a Sponsor for the 2023 TAC International Film Festival, contact us at
Dr. William Maier and Kathy Black
Dr. Timothy Arbow
Robert Carmichael DDS
The Archaeology Channel
International Film Festival
Exploring the human cultural legacy on screen!
Overall dates: May 14 - 18, 2025
TAC Festival Banquet
Gordon Hotel, Eugene, Oregon, USA
May 14, 2025
Film Festival Screenings
Sheffer Recital Hall, The Shedd Institute, Eugene, Oregon, USA
May 15 - 18, 2025
TAC Festival begins officially with the Festival Banquet, Wednesday evening, May 14, 2025. This is followed by four days of juried films and videos on archaeological and indigenous topics at The Shedd Institute, Sheffer Recital Hall. Film screenings tickets are free:
- Thursday evening, May 15
- Friday evening, May 16
- Saturday, May 17: morning, afternoon and evening
- Sunday, May 18: morning, afternoon and evening
Other activities will include:
- Saturday Social, Saturday evening, May 17
- Awards Reception, Sunday evening, May 18
Festival Mission
To exhibit for our audience the wonderful diversity of human cultures past and present in the exploration of our place in history and in our world. To promote and celebrate the genre and the makers of all audiovisual cultural heritage media.
Local information:
2025 Selected Films
- Alhambra: The Lost Paradise
- Artemis: The Lost Temple
- The Black Italian Renaissance
- Brown and Baltersan
- The Etruscans: An Ancient Superpower
- eXpedition: Flint–The Gold of Prehistory
- Humans before Neanderthals
- Hunt for the Oldest DNA
- The Islay of Whisky
- IZNIK: The Sunken Enigma
- Luckless Lake
- Mesopotamia: The Rise of Cities
- The Mystery of the Denisova Humans
- The Body and the Name, The Unknown of the Ardeatine Caves
- One Big Family: The History of the Kliafa Soft Drinks Company
- The Opening Address
- Pompeii: The House of the Faun
- Returning Our Ancestors
- Sapiens or the Birth of Art
- Secret Lebanon: The Treasures of Byblos
- Secret Sardinia: Mysteries of the Nuraghi
- Shadow Catcher: A Photographic Odyssey
- The Stones Are Speaking
- Stories of a Necropolis
Keynote Speaker 2025:
Dr. Eske Willerslev, evolutionary geneticist, University of Cambridge and Copenhagen University
TAC Festival Banquet
An important social event at TAC Festival is the Festival Banquet, which takes place the evening of May 14, 2025, 6-9 pm, at the Gordon Hotel. This is the venue for our Keynote Address by Dr. Eske Willerslev of the University of Cambridge and Copenhagen University. Registration for this event is accomplished through our Banquet Registration Form.
Sponsors for the 2025 TAC International Film Festival
(To become a Sponsor for the 2025 TAC International Film Festival, contact us at
Dr. William Maier and Kathy Black
Drew L. Johnson, P.C.
The Archaeology Channel
International Film Festival
Film Screenings: Exploring the human cultural legacy on screen!
Recital Hall, The Shedd Institute, Eugene, Oregon, USA
May 4 - 7, 2017
The Archaeology Channel
Conference on Cultural Heritage Media
Hilton Eugene and Conference Center, Eugene, Oregon, USA
May 3 - 6, 2017
Four days of juried films and videos on archaeological and indigenous topics:
- Thursday evening, May 4
- Friday evening, May 5
- Saturday, May 6: morning, afternoon and evening
- Sunday, May 7: morning, afternoon and evening
- Awards Reception Sunday evening, May 7
Three days of presentations, discussions and exhibits on cultural heritage media at The Archaeology Channel Conference on Cultural Heritage Media:
- Thursday, May 4, through Saturday, May 6
Local information:
- Downtown Eugene Map
- Downtown Eugene Restaurant Guide
- Hotel Information
- Download a copy of our complete Festival Schedule
Festival Mission
To exhibit for our audience the wonderful diversity of human cultures past and present in the exploration of our place in history and in our world. To promote the genre and the makers of film and video productions about cultural heritage.
Selected Films
- Agacheri Turks: The Woodmen of Anatolia
- Approaches: Saint Michel de Cuxa
- The Bridge Recovered
- Chambord: The Castle, the King and the Architect
- The Destruction of Memory
- The Enigma of the Great Menhir
- The Experts Travel Back in Time: The Neolithic Ages
- Fatal Alchemy
- A Footnote in Ballet History
- Fort Ancient
- A Gigantic Jigsaw Puzzle: The Epicurean Inscription of Diogenes of Oinoanda
- God’s House
- The Grand Masters of the Chauvet Cave
- Gyptis: A Greco-Massalian Boat Dating back to the 6th Century BC
- Himera: The Temple of Victory
- Honey Hunters
- Iceman Reborn
- The Inevitable Evolution of Fort Frederick
- The Lost City of Cecil B. DeMille
- Mia
- My Name is Salt
- Naachtun: The Forgotten Mayan City
- Nowruz in Tajikistan
- Prayers Long Silent
- Sailing a Sinking Sea
- Stone Age Cinema
- Vikings Unearthed
Keynote Speaker (Wednesday evening at the Festival Banquet in the Eugene Hilton and Conference Center)
- Christopher Thornton, Senior Director of Cultural Heritage at the National Geographic Society
Associated Activities
Tickets
Tickets for film screenings at the Recital Hall are free, and will be available in the Living Room. The seating capacity of the Recital Hall is 200.
Tickets for single Conference presentations and full-day Conference passes are available. Single Presentation Pass ($10); Full Day Pass ($50)–grants entry to all presentations on any given day (Thursday, Friday or Saturday). Available at the Registration Table in the Hilton Conference Center. For more information about the Conference on Cultural Heritage Media and Registration before the event, click here.
TAC Festival Banquet
An important social event at TAC Festival is the Festival Banquet, which takes place the evening of May 3, 2017, at the Eugene Hilton and Conference Center. The Banquet fee is $60. This is the venue for our Keynote Address. Registration for this event is accomplished through our Banquet Registration Form.
More to be announced.
Sponsors for the 2017 TAC International Film Festival
Dr. William Maier and Kathy Black
Carmichael, Robert DDS
Albertsons
Jean and Ray Auel
Dr. Timothy Arbow
University of Oregon Brand Management
Toftemark & Olesen, LLC.
The Archaeology Channel
International Film Festival
Film Screenings: Exploring the human cultural legacy on screen!
Recital Hall, The Shedd Institute, Eugene, Oregon, USA
May 3 - 6, 2018
The Archaeology Channel
Conference on Cultural Heritage Media
Hilton Eugene and Conference Center, Eugene, Oregon, USA
May 2 - 5, 2018
Four days of juried films and videos on archaeological and indigenous topics:
- Thursday evening, May 3
- Friday evening, May 4
- Saturday, May 5: morning, afternoon and evening
- Sunday, May 6: morning, afternoon and evening
- Awards Reception Sunday evening, May 6
Three days of presentations, discussions and exhibits on cultural heritage media at The Archaeology Channel Conference on Cultural Heritage Media:
- Thursday, May 3, through Saturday, May 5
Local information:
- Downtown Eugene Map
- Festival Food & Beverage Guide
- Hotel Information
- Download a copy of our complete Festival Schedule (PDF) (docx)
Festival Mission
To exhibit for our audience the wonderful diversity of human cultures past and present in the exploration of our place in history and in our world. To promote the genre and the makers of film and video productions about cultural heritage.
Selected Films
- Cervantes: The Search
- Chartres: Light Reborn
- Chinese Chariot Revealed
- The Enigma of the Celtic Tomb
- Good Earth: Awakening the Silent City
- Just Like Us
- Life in Circles
- Manohar Ambanagari
- Marovo Carver
- Masters of Universe
- A New Petroglyph for Campo Lameiro
- Nothing About Moccasins
- Of Love & Artistry
- On the Banks of the Tigris: The Hidden Story of Iraqi Music
- Savages in Foreign Lands
- Searching for the Lost Future
- Secrets of the Nolichucky River
- Secrets of Sakdrisi
- Sekar Arum: Forging the Javanese Gamelan
- Seven Regards
- Shepherds in the Cave
- Still Turning
- The Tempest Stela: Revisiting the Roots of the Exodus
- To Wake
- Tulsa
- United By Water
- Vikings: Warriors from the North, Giants of the Sea
- A Walk Through Time
- Written in Stone
Keynote Speaker (Wednesday evening at the Festival Banquet in the Eugene Hilton and Conference Center)
- Dr. Fredrik Hiebert, Archaeologist-In-Residence at the National Geographic Society
Associated Activities
Tickets
Tickets for film screenings at the Recital Hall are free, and will be available in the Living Room. The seating capacity of the Recital Hall is 200.
Tickets for single Conference presentations and full-day Conference passes are available. Single Presentation Pass ($10); Full Day Pass ($50)–grants entry to all presentations on any given day (Thursday, Friday or Saturday). Available at the Registration Table in the Hilton Conference Center. For more information about the Conference on Cultural Heritage Media and Registration before the event, click here.
TAC Festival Banquet
An important social event at TAC Festival is the Festival Banquet, which takes place the evening of May 2, 2018, at the Eugene Hilton and Conference Center. The Banquet fee is $60. This is the venue for our Keynote Address. Registration for this event is accomplished through our Banquet Registration Form.
More to be announced.
Sponsors for the 2018 TAC International Film Festival
Dr. William Maier and Kathy Black
Carmichael, Robert DDS
Dr. Timothy Arbow
The Archaeology Channel
International Film Festival
Festival Banquet and Keynote Address
May 1, 2019
Conference on Cultural Heritage Media
Hotel Eugene, Eugene, Oregon, USA
May 2 - 4, 2019
Film Festival Screenings
Recital Hall, The Shedd Institute, Eugene, Oregon, USA
May 2 - 5, 2019
Four days of juried films and videos on archaeological and indigenous topics:
- Thursday evening, May 2
- Friday evening, May 3
- Saturday, May 4: morning, afternoon and evening
- Sunday, May 5: morning, afternoon and evening
- Awards Reception Sunday evening, May 5
Three days of presentations, discussions and exhibits on cultural heritage media at The Archaeology Channel Conference on Cultural Heritage Media:
- Thursday, May 2, through Saturday, May 4
Local information:
- Downtown Eugene Map
- Festival Food & Beverage Guide
- Hotel Information
- Download a copy of our complete Festival Schedule (PDF) (docx)
Festival Mission
To exhibit for our audience the wonderful diversity of human cultures past and present in the exploration of our place in history and in our world. To promote the genre and the makers of film and video productions about cultural heritage.
Selected Films
- The Birth of Printing: The Gutenberg Revolution
- The Builders of Stonehenge
- Caveirac: A Castle Regained
- Churches: The Quest for Light
- Confucius
- First Encounter
- First Face of America
- Ghosts of the West: The End of the Bonanza Trail
- Inhabiting Summers of History
- Leonardo: The Mystery of the Lost Portrait
- Manchurian Sleepwalkers
- Mont Saint Michel: Scanning the Wonder
- Mosques: Art and Space
- Mysterious Discoveries in the Great Pyramid
- The Origins of Music
- Project Mosul
- Rock Art Project, Iraqi Kurdestan, Part 01, 2016
- Roman Engineering: Aqueducts II: Ensuring a Vital Supply
- The Sacred Geography of the Incas
- Sacred Sites: Petra
- The Titanic of Southampton
- To Auschwitz and Back: The Joe Engel Story
- Who Killed the Neanderthal?
Keynote Speaker (Wednesday evening at the Festival Banquet in the Eugene Hilton and Conference Center)
- Evan Hadingham, Senior Science Editor at WGBH NOVA
Associated Activities
Tickets
Tickets for film screenings at the Recital Hall are free, and will be available in the Living Room. The seating capacity of the Recital Hall is 200.
Tickets for single Conference presentations and full-day Conference passes are available. Single Presentation Pass ($10); Full Day Pass ($50)–grants entry to all presentations on any given day (Thursday, Friday or Saturday). Available at the Registration Table in the Hotel Eugene. For more information about the Conference on Cultural Heritage Media and Registration before the event, click here.
TAC Festival Banquet
An important social event at TAC Festival is the Festival Banquet, which takes place the evening of May 1, 2019, at the Hotel Eugene. The Banquet fee is $65. This is the venue for our Keynote Address. Registration for this event is accomplished through our Banquet Registration Form (PDF) (Or our .docx form).
Sponsors for the 2019 TAC International Film Festival
(To become a Sponsor for the 2020 TAC International Film Festival, contact us @
Dr. William Maier and Kathy Black
Dr. Timothy Arbow
The Archaeology Channel
International Film Festival
Exploring the human cultural legacy on screen!
The 17th annual edition of TAC Festival
will have online film screenings only,
May 13-17, 2020.
We will NOT be screening films at The Shedd this year, but please take advantage of our online screening option!
Festival Mission
To exhibit for our audience the wonderful diversity of human cultures past and present in the exploration of our place in history and in our world. To promote the genre and the makers of film and video productions about cultural heritage.
Selected Films
- Art at War
- Becoming Singapore
- The “Boy” with the Nikon
- Bronze: A Forgotten Treasure
- Cedar: Tree of Life
- First Horse Warriors
- Hafez and Goethe
- The Last Bonesetter
- The Last Tribes
- The Lions of Lissa
- Lost Cities with Albert Lin: Stonehenge
- Mayan Time: Archaeo-astronomical Phenomena
- Neandertal: The Mystery of the Bruniquel Cave
- Papua New Guinea: The Fire Dance
- Pyramids Builders New Clues
- Remains: The Search for SFC Samuel J. Padgett
- The Ring People
- River of Treasures
- Samurai in the Oregon Sky
- Saving Places
- Stout Hearted: George Stout and the Guardians of Art
- Theirstory
- Vars
- Versailles Rediscovered: The Sun King’s Vanished Palace
- We, the Voyagers: Our Vaka
- Yam Festival, Ghana
Digital Festival Program
Get your digital copy of the Festival Program which includes information on all the films submitted to the Festival! 100+ Films from 26 countries!
Tickets
The Festival has come to a successful conclusion, thanks to all those that participated this year!
Sponsors for the 2020 TAC International Film Festival
(To become a Sponsor for the 2021 TAC International Film Festival, contact us @
Dr. William Maier and Kathy Black
Susan Long
The Archaeology Channel
International Film Festival
Exploring the human cultural legacy on screen!
June 23 - 27, 2021
Conference on Cultural Heritage Media
Civic Winery, Eugene, Oregon, USA
June 24 - 26, 2021
Film Festival Screenings
Recital Hall, The Shedd Institute, Eugene, Oregon, USA
June 24 - 27, 2021
Four days of juried films and videos on archaeological and indigenous topics:
- Thursday evening, June 24
- Friday evening, June 25
- Saturday, June 26: morning, afternoon and evening
- Sunday, June 27: morning, afternoon and evening
- Awards Reception Sunday evening, June 27
Three days of presentations, discussions and exhibits on cultural heritage media at The Archaeology Channel Conference on Cultural Heritage Media:
- Thursday, June 24, through Saturday, June 26, 2021
Local information:
- Downtown Eugene Map
- Festival Food & Beverage Guide
- Hotel Information
- Download a copy of our complete Festival Schedule Matrix (PDF)
- Download a digital copy of our Festival Program (PDF)
Festival Mission
To exhibit for our audience the wonderful diversity of human cultures past and present in the exploration of our place in history and in our world. To promote and celebrate the genre and the makers of all audiovisual cultural heritage media.
Selected Films
- The Art of Time
- Comprehending the History: Mysteries of Ancient Kultobe
- Dehsalm
- The Dune People
- Etoa: A Kokoda Track Story
- The Forgotten Refuge
- The Gallic Pact
- The Ghost of the Neolithic
- Homo Sapiens: New Origins
- Kaddish
- La Charada Teatro: Puppeteers in Guatemala
- The Lost Redwood
- Meeting Neanderthal
- No Roses on a Sailor’s Grave
- Pray
- Riddle of the Bones: Gender Revolution
- Riding through Time
- Rituals: Amazonia, To Become a Man
- Sarevo
- Saving the Sacred
- Seeds
- Sfumato
- Smoke and Ocher
- Thus Speaks Taram-Kubi: Assyrian Correspondence
- Tintin and the Mystery of the Rascar Capac Mummy
- Twelve Decades of Discovery
- The Untold Story of the Vatican
- Viva Presidio!
- We, the Voyagers: Our Moana
- What if Nothing?
Keynote Speaker (Wednesday evening at the Festival Banquet in the Gordon Hotel)
Dr. Jaime Bach, Archaeologist for SEARCH
Tickets
Tickets for film screenings at The Shedd Institute, Sheffer Recital Hall, are free and will be available in the Cole Gallery.
Tickets for single Conference presentations and full-day Conference passes will be available at the door. Full Conference registration ($130); Single Presentation Pass ($10); Full Day Pass ($50); non-presenter Amelia Earhart-Fred Noonan Symposium ONLY ($50; includes optional remote participation). For more information about the Conference on Cultural Heritage Media and Registration, click here.
TAC Festival Banquet
An important social event at TAC Festival is the Festival Banquet, which takes place the evening of June 23, 2021, 6-9 pm, at the Gordon Hotel. The Banquet fee is $55. This is the venue for our Keynote Address. Registration for this event is accomplished through our Banquet Registration Form (PDF) (.docx).
Other Activities
Keynote Speaker (Festival Banquet)
Dr. Jaime Bach, Archaeologist for SEARCH
Gordon Tavern555 Oak Street
Wednesday, June 23, 6 - 9 pm
Fee: $55/plate
The 2019 National Geographic documentary, “Expedition Amelia,” focused on the work of Robert Ballard and his high-tech undersea search around Nikumaroro Island for the Lockheed Electra airplane piloted by Amelia Earhart, who disappeared in 1937 during her attempt to fly around the world. The TV presentation made reference to the terrestrial research that took place simultaneously on the island, but the emphasis clearly was on Ballard, famously the man who located the Titanic. One person who participated in many parts of the 2019 fieldwork was Dr. Jaime Bach. In her Keynote Address, Dr. Bach will share her observations on what actually took place during that expedition and what we have learned from it.
Saturday Social
WOW Hall291 West 8th Street
Saturday, 26 June, 7 - 10 pm
Ages: Open to all ages
Fee: FREE! No pre-registration required
Hobnob with filmmakers, Festival organizers, Conference presenters, and other Festival-goers while enjoying food and drink and grooving to the voice and guitar of Socrates Thalassos. At this party, we let our hair down and cultivate an authentic form of American cultural heritage. This is all free, but we’ll give you a chance to make a contribution if you like!
Awards Reception
WOW Hall291 West 8th Street
Sunday, 27 June, 7 - 9 pm
Ages: Open to all ages
Fee: $5 general admission; free for Conference registrants. Tickets at the door. No pre-registration required.
After all the films have been screened and you have cast your ballots, join us for some finger food and beverages as we compile the results of the competition. When the jury and audience voting tallies are complete, sit back and watch the announcement of the winners. We will show clips of the top films and open sealed envelopes to reveal the final outcome. The room has limited capacity, so don’t be late!
Sponsors for the 2021 TAC International Film Festival
(To become a Sponsor for the 2022 TAC International Film Festival, contact us at
Dr. William Maier and Kathy Black
Dr. Timothy Arbow
Robert Carmichael DDS
Susan Long
The Archaeology Channel
International Film Festival
Exploring the human cultural legacy on screen!
May 11 - 15, 2022
Conference on Cultural Heritage Media
Civic Winery, Eugene, Oregon, USA
May 12 - 14, 2022
Film Festival Screenings
Recital Hall, The Shedd Institute, Eugene, Oregon, USA
May 12 - 15, 2022
Four days of juried films and videos on archaeological and indigenous topics:
- Thursday evening, May 12
- Friday evening, May 13
- Saturday, May 14: morning, afternoon and evening
- Sunday, May 15: morning, afternoon and evening
- Awards Reception Sunday evening, May 15
Two days of presentations, discussions and exhibits on cultural heritage media at The Archaeology Channel Conference on Cultural Heritage Media:
- Friday, May 13, through Saturday, May 14, 2022
Local information:
- Downtown Eugene Map
- Download a copy of our complete Festival Schedule Matrix (PDF)
- Download a digital copy of our Festival Program (PDF)
Festival Mission
To exhibit for our audience the wonderful diversity of human cultures past and present in the exploration of our place in history and in our world. To promote and celebrate the genre and the makers of all audiovisual cultural heritage media.
Selected Films
- The 1001 Faces of Palmyra: The Lost Jewel of the Desert
- Burren Girl
- Caesar's Doomsday War
- The Colosseum in Quarantine
- D'Artagnan: Searching for the Real Musketeers
- Daughters of Courage
- The Mysteries of the Bayeux Tapestry
- National Archaeological Museum of Naples: Treasury of Civilization
- The Oath of Cyriac
- Parizad
- The Pillar of Strength
- Raymond Lewis: L.A. Legend
- Roman Engineering: Mining
- Roman Engineering: Roads, The Neural Network of the Empire
- Songs of the Water Spirits
- The Trace of Time
- The Trojan Horse: On the Trail of a Myth
- Who Wrote the Bible? Revelations about one of the Greatest Mysteries in History
- William Waldren: The Alchemist's Footprint
Keynote Speaker (Wednesday evening at the Festival Banquet in the Gordon Hotel)
Don Blakeslee PhD, Professor and Archaeologist - Fairmount College of Liberal Arts and Sciences - Wichita State University
Tickets
Tickets for film screenings at The Shedd Institute, Sheffer Recital Hall, are free and will be available in the Cole Gallery.
Tickets for single Conference presentations and full-day Conference passes will be available at the door. Full Conference registration ($130); Single Presentation Pass ($10); Full Day Pass ($50); . For more information about the Conference on Cultural Heritage Media and Registration, Click here.
TAC Festival Banquet
An important social event at TAC Festival is the Festival Banquet, which takes place the evening of May 11, 2022, 6-9 pm, at the Gordon Hotel. The Banquet fee is $60. This is the venue for our Keynote Address. Registration for this event is accomplished through our Banquet Registration Form (PDF).
Sponsors for the 2022 TAC International Film Festival
(To become a Sponsor for the 2023 TAC International Film Festival, contact us at
Dr. William Maier and Kathy Black
Dr. Timothy Arbow
Robert Carmichael DDS
