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

Simultaneously, The Archaeology Channel Conference on Cultural Heritage Media will be held on Saturday, May 18.

Other activities will include:

• Saturday Social, the evening of Saturday, May 18
• Awards Reception Sunday evening, May 19

Local information:

• Downtown Eugene Map
• Download a digital copy of our 2023 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.

2023 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 2023 (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

2023 Associated Activities

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 15, 2024, 6-9 pm, at the Gordon Hotel. The Banquet fee is TBD. This is the venue for our Keynote Address. Registration for this event is accomplished through our Banquet Registration Form (TBD).

Sponsors for the 2023 TAC International Film Festival

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