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TAC Fest 2007 Pages

TAC International Film and Video Festival 

 

 

Symposium on Heritage Film
1-5 PM, Friday, May 4, 2007
Singer Room
Eugene Public Library
10th and Olive
Eugene, Oregon, USA

 

Open to all those interested in film making about the human cultural heritage.

 

 

 

 

Summary of activities:

The Symposium on Heritage Film provides an opportunity for film makers, distributors, broadcasters, indigenous groups, and archaeologists to come together and share ideas and perspectives. The Symposium format will be fairly informal, involving presentations from individual producers followed by a round-table discussion on goals, problems, techniques, and experiences among those who are connected with, or wish to be connected with, the genre of film on archaeology and indigenous peoples.


Schedule:
Friday, 4 May 2007, 1-5 PM

 

Location:
Eugene Public Library, Singer Room, 10th & Olive, Eugene, Oregon, USA

 

Fee: None required

 

Presenters:

-- Dr. Kurt Denzer, Director of the CINARCHEA International Archaeological Film and Art Festival of Kiel, Germany: “The Evolution of International Archaeology Film Festivals.”
-- Dr. Richard Pettigrew, Archaeological Legacy Institute, Eugene, Oregon (Festival organizer and producer of The Archaeology Channel):
-- Dr. Guy Prouty, Archaeological Legacy Institute, Eugene, Oregon (ALI Videographer)
-- Peng Xiaolian, film producer from Shanghai, China, and Director of TAC Festival 2007 entry, Red Persimmons: “Red Persimmons: Documenting the Vanishing of an Era”
-- Phil Gross, film producer from Davis, California, and producer of TAC Festival 2007 entry, The Obsidian Trail
Sue Arbuthnot and Richard Wilhelm, film producers from Portland, Oregon, and producers of TAC Festival 2007 entry, Proving Up and Settling Down
-- Ward Biaggne, University of Oregon Media Services Educational Video Group

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Native American Storytelling
3-5 p.m., Friday, May 4, 2007
Bascom-Tykeson Room
Eugene Public Library
10th and Olive
Eugene, Oregon

 

A special TAC Festival event featuring Native American storyteller Esther Stutzman

 

 

 

 

Program summary:
 

Join Esther Stutzman, a Native American storyteller from Yoncalla, Oregon, and teacher and Chair of the Komemma Cultural Protection Association. The program will begin with 15 minutes of Native drumming and conclude in the same fashion. Esther will tell stories from her Kalapuya and Coos ancestors, including Coyote stories, Origin stories, and stories involving audience participation. Her stories will harken back to the time when animals could talk and people could talk to animals. Esther is a keeper and teacher of her indigenous Oregon cultures, which she shares widely through stories and arts handed down from her ancestors. She has worked with the Oregon Folklife Council at the Oregon Historical Society, the Applegate House Arts and Education program in Yoncalla, as a Board Member of the McKenzie River Gathering Foundation, and as a Board Member of Archaeological Legacy Institute.
 

Ages: All ages

 

Location: Bascom-Tykeson Room, Eugene Public Library, 10th and Olive, Eugene, Oregon

 

Storyteller: Esther Stutzman


Fee: No admission fee.


No pre-registration required.

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Day Trek to Cascadia Cave
Friday, 4 May, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Ages: 12 and up, in good physical condition
Guide: Tony Farque, Archaeologist, Sweet Home Ranger District, Willamette NF

 

A special TAC Festival guided tour to one of the most visually impressive archaeological sites in western Oregon. This tour is hosted by our partner, the Willamette National Forest.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Program summary:

 

Join us on a hike to one of the most visually impressive archaeological sites in western Oregon. Used by people for 8000 or more years, Cascadia Cave is located along significant indigenous travel routes and provided important cultural functions to more than one tribal group. Here the largest group of rock art panels in western Oregon remains in excellent condition. Come view the site, hear excavation conclusions, discuss current rock art interpretations, and help plan site restoration, protection, and interpretation. Transportation will be through car-pooling.

 

Ages: 12 and up, in good physical condition

 

Guide: Tony Farque, Archaeologist, Sweet Home Ranger District, Willamette National Forest

 

Registration: Please contact Archaeological Legacy Institute
(filmfest@archaeologychannel>.org or 541-345-5538 or 541-515-5976) to register. Please register as early as possible. TAC Festival tickets will be required of all participants.

 

Fee: No registration fee is required. However, we would appreciate a $20 or more donation to support the program.

 

Location: Meet at the south entrance to The Shedd, Broadway and High (868 High St.), Eugene, Oregon

 

Trip Information: Last year’s Cascadia Cave trek met with such an enthusiastic response that we decided to do it again! Bring a lunch to eat in the cave. Transportation will be through car-pooling and the drive is two hours each way. Be prepared for a two mile round trip hike through the woods along a flat river terrace. Also bring rain gear and boots and a change of warm clothes. We will cross one stream and follow a muddy path less traveled. We park at Cascadia State Park and use the rest rooms to change clothes if necessary. We plan to return to The Shedd by 4 p.m.

 

Louis Leakey
Louis Leakey

Mary Leakey
Mary Leakey

Richard Leakey
Richard Leakey

Meave Leakey
Meave Leakey

Louise Leakey
Louise Leakey

 

 

 

The Leakey Legacy

Born in 1903 to a missionary family in Kenya, Louis Leakey stubbornly held to the notion, unpopular at the time but now widely accepted, that the human species evolved in Africa. With his wife Mary, he began searching the sedimentary exposures of Kenya's Olduvai Gorge in the 1930s for evidence in support of his hypothesis. For decades, all they could find were numerous mammal bones along with curious stone tools whose makers remained a mystery. Their fortunes changed one day in 1959, when Mary came across some curious human-like teeth. Excavation recovered hundreds of skull fragments, which when pieced together formed the fossil now dubbed Australopithecus boisei. Two years later the Leakey family found Homo habilis ("tool-maker") and all eyes turned to Africa as the cradle of humanity. Louis and Mary Leakey became world celebrities and East Africa became the "Mecca" for investigators of human origins.

 

Over the span of seven decades and three generations, the Leakey family has continued its contributions to the human story. Among Mary's later accomplishments was the 1979 discovery, at Laetoli, of hominid footprints dated 3.6 million years, demonstrating to the world's surprise that early pre-human ancestors walked upright. Son Richard Leakey and his wife Meave established illustrious careers in a new research location at Koobi Fora on Kenya's Lake Turkana. Today, the Leakey tradition continues with Dr. Louise Leakey, the daughter of Richard and Meave, directing the Koobi Fora Project.

 

More information on the Leakey family can be found at http://www.leakey.com.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Louise Leakey

Fourth-generation Kenyan Dr. Louise Leakey (Ph.D., London University) has upheld the Leakey family legacy (see reverse side) in the search for human origins through continuing research with the Koobi Fora Research Project (http://www.kfrp.com.) in the Turkana Basin of northern Kenya. Daughter of renowned palaeoanthropologists Meave and Richard Leakey, Louise is now a National Geographic "explorer-in-residence." She leads the exploration and excavation project at Lake Turkana, made famous through the work of her parents for its many contributions to the human fossil record. For 35 years, the rigorous process of search, excavation, and paleoecological and geological analysis in the Turkana Basin has made it one of the most comprehensive field efforts yet organized to explore human origins and evolution.

 

One of the research team's most recent (2001) and publicized discoveries was that of a new species, Kenyanthropus platyops, which extends diversity in the human fossil record back to 3.5 million years. This find, announced in the journal Nature, had profound implications for our understanding of human origins. In a front page article, The New York Times reported that "this discovery threatens to overturn the prevailing view that a single line of descent stretched through the early stages of human ancestry." Joined by a team of Kenyan fossil hunters, the research team also is rigorously searching the rocky terrain for remains of animals that lived 1-4 million years ago in an effort to reconstruct the habitat in which our species evolved.

 

In addition to the long term field studies in the Turkana Basin, Dr. Leakey has worked closely with the local communities to increase funding for local schools and medical centers. In addition, she has spent considerable time working alongside the Sibiloi National Park authorities to ensure the protection of some of the richest fossil sites within the Park boundaries. Piloting a light aircraft, a Cessna 206, across remote terrain, Leakey conducts aerial surveys, spotting wildlife and illegal livestock incursions into the Park, as well as ferrying scientists and supplies to their remote field stations at Lake Turkana. Dr. Leakey also works alongside wildlife authorities to preserve the unique plants and animals of Kenya's remotest National Park and World Heritage Site. She is involved in several community projects at Illeret, a town close to the Ethiopian border, in an effort to improve the welfare of people on the National Park boundaries. Dr. Leakey was recently named a Young Global Leader for the World Economic Forum, in recognition of the importance of both her scientific contributions and community efforts. Dr. Leakey lives in Kenya with her husband, Emmanuel de Merode, and their young daughter, Seiyia. An avid photographer and a conservationist, she sits on the advisory board of Sea Shepherd International, whose efforts in the Galapagos have given the islands world attention. Among her other pursuits, she manages the Leakey family vineyard where, on the edge of the Great Rift Valley, they produce one of East Africa's finest Pinot Noirs.

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Award Selections 2007

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Best Film (by Jury)

 

Unearthing the Lost Kingdom of Aratta (Produced by Marie-Pierre Aulas, Gedeon Programmes; distributed by Terranoa; France)

Honorable Mention (in order):

Novgorod: Letters from the Middle Ages (Produced by Valerie Grenon, Gedeon Programmes; distributed by Terranoa; France)

Signs Out of Time (Produced by Donna Read, Belili Productions; distributed by Belili Productions; USA)

Tibet Tibet (Produced by Kim Seong Yong; distributed by Ragos; Japan)

Network (Produced by Andreas Apostolidis; distributed by Deckert Distribution; Greece)

 

Special Mention (by Jury)

Network (Produced by Andreas Apostolidis; distributed by Deckert Distribution; Greece); for the significance of its message

Signs Out of Time (Produced by Donna Read, Belili Productions; distributed by Belili Productions; USA); for unique insights and compelling biography

Tibet Tibet (Produced by Kim Seong Yong; distributed by Ragos; Japan); for the significance of its message

 

Best Narration (by Jury)

Network
(Produced by Andreas Apostolidis; distributed by Deckert Distribution; Greece)
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Honorable Mention (in order):

Unearthing the Lost Kingdom of Aratta (Produced by Marie-Pierre Aulas, Gedeon Programmes; distributed by Terranoa; France)

Novgorod: Letters from the Middle Ages (Produced by Valerie Grenon, Gedeon Programmes; distributed by Terranoa; France)

The Lost Ship of Venice (Produced by Maurice Ribiere, Taxi-Brousse Company; distributed by Doclab; France/Italy)

Journeys Into the Ring of Fire: Peru (Produced by Jeremy Phillips and Arif Nourmohamed, BBC Science and History Studio; distributed by BBC Worldwide; UK)

 

 

Best Animation (by Jury)

The Lost Ship of Venice (Produced by Maurice Ribiere, Taxi-Brousse Company; distributed by Doclab; France/Italy)

Honorable Mention (in order):

Yvan’s Masterpiece (Produced by Center for Alexandrian Studies; distributed by Harpocrates Publishing; Egypt)

Secrets of Stonehenge Revealed (Produced by JWM Productions; distributed by A&E Networks; USA)

Signs Out of Time (Produced by Donna Read, Belili Productions; distributed by Belili Productions; USA)

 

 

Best Script (by Jury)

Unearthing the Lost Kingdom of Aratta (Produced by Marie-Pierre Aulas, Gedeon Programmes; distributed by Terranoa; France)

Honorable Mention (in order):

Novgorod: Letters from the Middle Ages (Produced by Valerie Grenon, Gedeon Programmes; distributed by Terranoa; France)

The Lost Ship of Venice (Produced by Maurice Ribiere, Taxi-Brousse Company; distributed by Doclab; France/Italy)

Network (Produced by Andreas Apostolidis; distributed by Deckert Distribution; Greece)

Signs Out of Time (Produced by Donna Read, Belili Productions; distributed by Belili Productions; USA)

 

 

Best Cinematography (by Jury)

Journeys Into the Ring of Fire: Peru (Produced by Jeremy Phillips and Arif Nourmohamed, BBC Science and History Studio; distributed by BBC Worldwide; UK)

Honorable Mention (in order):

Genghis Khan–Rider of the Apocalypse (Produced by Heinrich Mayer, Austrian Broadcasting Corp., Natural History Unit; distributed by                             Austrian Broadcasting Corp., Natural History Unit; Austria)

Unearthing the Lost Kingdom of Aratta (Produced by Marie-Pierre Aulas, Gedeon Programmes; distributed by Terranoa; France)

Novgorod: Letters from the Middle Ages (Produced by Valerie Grenon, Gedeon Programmes; distributed by Terranoa; France)

The Lost Ship of Venice (Produced by Maurice Ribiere, Taxi-Brousse Company; distributed by Doclab; France/Italy)

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Best Music (by Jury)
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Novgorod: Letters from the Middle Ages (Produced by Valerie Grenon, Gedeon Programmes; distributed by Terranoa; France)

Honorable Mention (in order):

Proving Up and Settling Down (Produced by Sue Arbuthnot and Richard Wilhelm, Hare-in-the-Gate Productions; distributed by Idaho Power Company; USA)

Unearthing the Lost Kingdom of Aratta (Produced by Marie-Pierre Aulas, Gedeon Programmes; distributed by Terranoa; France)

Puglia, The Acropolis, Odysseus and the Swallow (Produced and distributed by Nicoletta Gouli, Periegesis Film Productions, Greece)

Tibet Tibet (Produced by Kim Seong Yong; distributed by Ragos; Japan)

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Most Inspirational (by Jury)

Unearthing the Lost Kingdom of Aratta (Produced by Marie-Pierre Aulas, Gedeon Programmes; distributed by Terranoa; France)

Honorable Mention (in order):

Tibet Tibet (Produced by Kim Seong Yong; distributed by Ragos; Japan)

The Lost Ship of Venice (Produced by Maurice Ribiere, Taxi-Brousse Company; distributed by Doclab; France/Italy)

Novgorod: Letters from the Middle Ages (Produced by Valerie Grenon, Gedeon Programmes; distributed by Terranoa; France)

Yvan’s Masterpiece (Produced by Center for Alexandrian Studies; distributed by Harpocrates Publishing; Egypt)

 

 

Audience Favorite Competiton (by Festival audience)

Tibet Tibet (Produced by Kim Seong Yong; distributed by Ragos; Japan)

Honorable Mention (in order):

The Lost Ship of Venice (Produced by Maurice Ribiere, Taxi-Brousse Company; distributed by Doclab; France/Italy)

Unearthing the Lost Kingdom of Aratta (Produced by Marie-Pierre Aulas, Gedeon Programmes; distributed by Terranoa; France)

Journeys Into the Ring of Fire: Peru (Produced by Jeremy Phillips and Arif Nourmohamed, BBC Science and History Studio; distributed by BBC Worldwide; UK)

Novgorod: Letters from the Middle Ages (Produced by Valerie Grenon, Gedeon Programmes; distributed by Terranoa; France)

TAC International Film and Video Festival Yvan's Masterpiece

 

Yvan at work     The finished mihrab

 

 

To prove his abilities and to be accepted as a Compagnon du Tour de France, Yvan Vigouroux, stonemason with the Center for Alexandrian Studies, must produce a masterwork. He chooses to create an element of ancient Islamic architecture: a mihrab. While leading us through the different phases of this venture- research, computer generated design, stonecarving and assembly of the mirhab itself–he reflects upon the job of a stonemason and the deeper meaning of the apprenticeship.

 

 

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Length: 13:07 min.
Country: Egypt
Language: English
Producer: Centre d'Etudes Alexandrines
Producers Web site: http://www.cealex.org
Distributor: Harpocrates Publishing / Jean-Yves Empereur
Distributor Web site: http://www.harpocrates.com.eg/
Copyright: 2005 by Center for Alexandrian Studies (Centre d'Etudes Alexandrines)

 

 


Festival Screenings and Awards:

Festivals:
Thessaloniki, Greece
Prix d'Encouragement, La Réunion, France
Rovereto, Italy
Irun, Spain

TAC International Film and Video Festival Unearthing the Lost Kingdom of Aratta

 

Arattan figurine
Arattan vase

 

 

In southeastern Iran, a sudden change in the course of the Halil Roud River recently revealed traces of a 5000 year-old civilization on the Iranian Plateau that had been hidden until then. More than 80 archaeological sites have since been identified in the area. Five huge cemetaries were plundered, but the associated housing structures remain untouched. The large quantity of relics found, the cultural wealth of the objects, and the size of the area inhabited suggest an entirely original civilization. Scientists hail this as an important discovery, one which may challenge the common belief that civilization arose from one location in Mesopotamia.

 

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Length: 52 min.
Country: France
Language: English
Producer: Gedeon Programmes / Marie-Pierre Aulas
Producers Web site: http://www.gedeonprogrammes.com
Distributor: Terranoa
Distributor Web site: http://www.terranoa.com
Copyright: 2005, Gedeon Programmes - ARTE France

 

 

Festival Screenings and Awards:

Jury Prize, CINARCHEA International Archaeology Film and Art
Festival 2006, Kiel, Germany
Science Information Prize, Scoop d'Angers Festival, France, 2005

TAC International Film and Video Festival Tibet Tibet

 

 

Dalai Lama silhouette        Potala Palace in Lhasa

 

 

This film presents a dazzling tale of one man's successful quest to find place, meaning and identity in the high, remote wilderness of Tibet. In the process, his global journey reveals something of the essence and wonder of Tibet's ancient, religious culture. It also describes some of the conflicts it suffers today, after generations of oppression under the Chinese government and modern-day mass tourism invading every aspect of Tibetan culture.

 

 

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Length: 95:35 min.
Country: Japan
Language: Japanese with English sub-titles
Producer: Kim Seong Yong
Producers Web site: http://ragos.com
Distributor: Ragos
Distributor Web site: http://ragos.com
Copyright: (No information available)


Festival Screenings and Awards:

Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival, Japan, 2005

TAC International Film and Video Festival Signs Out of Time: The Story of Marija Gimbutas

 

 

Marija Gimbutas portrait     Neolithic Mother Goddess figurines

 

This dramatic story, told by renowned archaeologist Marija Gimbutas, has never been more timely. Her work on the Neolithic cultures of Old Europe (6500-3500 BC) reveals evidence of a peaceful, woman-honoring, Goddess-worshiping egalitarian civilization that existed for thousands of years with no war. Instead, theirs was a culture of art, exhibiting remarkable human creativity and stability in an era free of strife. What can we learn from this non-violent portion of human history?

 

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Length: 58:40 min.
Country: USA
Language: English
Producer: Belili Productions / Donna Read
Producers Web site: http://www.belili.org / http://www.gimbutas.org
Distributor: Belili Productions
Distributor Web site: http://www.belili.org / http://www.gimbutas.org
Copyright: 2003 by Belili Productions

 

Festival Screenings and Awards:

Women's History Project, UCLA
Fowler Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Rassegna Internazionale del Cinema Archaeologica, Rovereto, Italy, 2006
West Coast Premier, Cowell Theater, San Francisco, CA, 2004
East Coast Premier, Andover, MA, 2004
Goddess Conference Down Under, Melbourne, Australia, 2004
Canadian Premier, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, 2004
Woman Gathering Festival, Carbondale, PA, 2004