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DESCRIPTION:Documentary an urgent 'Call for Life'\nPaul Liberatore\n\nMarin 
 psychologist Chera Van Burg was so freaked out by what is being called "the 
 mass extinction" that she produced "Call of Life," the first feature film 
 about a looming threat that most people don't see coming.\n\nVan Burg, a 
 resident of San Anselmo, calls this no less than "the biggest issue that 
 humanity faces, an event that is more threatening than anything we have 
 ever faced before because it is destroying the biological systems needed 
 for our very existence."\n\nA founder of the nonprofit organization Species 
 Alliance, she decided to make a documentary about the mass extinction 
 because "so few people are aware of it," she said. "If people become aware 
 of this we can avert it."\n\n"Call of Life" has been shown as an official 
 selection of the recent Wild and Scenic Film Festival in Nevada City, 
 called the Sundance of environmental film festivals.\n\nIt won the John 
 Muir Gold Award at the Yosemite Film Festival and has been screened at the 
 Sonoma Environmental Film Festival and the Blue Planet Film Festival.\n\nIt 
 will have its Marin County premiere in its final version on Jan. 29 at the 
 Sunrise Center in Corte Madera.\n\nAccording to Van Burg and the 
 scientists, social scientists, historians, environmentalists, activists, 
 and visionary thinkers interviewed in the film, we are in what they call 
 "the sixth mass extinction," a destruction of biodiversity brought on by 
 global warming, pollution and other factors caused entirely by human 
 activities.\n\n"The last one was 65\nAdvertisement\nmillion years ago when 
 an asteroid is believed to have hit the planet and caused the dinosaurs to 
 become extinct," she said. "The difference is this one is entirely human 
 caused."\n\nAs a psychologist, Van Burg also thought it was important that 
 the documentary look at what she calls the "hidden drivers" of mass 
 extinction, "the psychological patterns in our culture" that have 
 contributed to this potential catastrophe.\n\n"What we have to change is 
 our own hearts and minds to stop this," she said, noting that the United 
 Nations has declared this "the year of biodiversity."\n\n"The timing is 
 becoming ripe for this to change," she said.\n\nNarrated by Marin's Peter 
 Coyote, "Call of Life" includes interviews with such luminaries as Paul R. 
 Ehrlich, president of the Center for Conservation Biology at Stanford 
 University; paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey, a world authority on 
 wildlife, conservation and the sixth mass extinction; eco-philosopher 
 Joanna Macy, environmentalist Norman Myers, an authority on biodiversity, 
 and Mary Evelyn Tucker, a member of the United Nations Interfaith 
 Partnership for the Environment.\n\nTreeHugger.com, a popular Web site 
 dedicated to green news, sustainability issues and product information, 
 praises the documentary's "stellar list of scientists," and compares it to 
 Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth."\n\n"It's quite well done," it says. 
 "TreeHugger looks forward to its full release."\n\nPlanetShifter.com, 
 another green news site, calls it "an eco flick to see ASAP!," saying it 
 "looks beyond technological solutions and into humanity's thoughts and 
 behaviors that are inextricably linked to the factors driving mass 
 extinction."\n\n\nContact Paul Liberatore via e-mail at 
 liberatore@marinij.com; follow him on Twitter at 
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SUMMARY:Corte Madera>Chera Van Burg's"Call of Life"Doc. what she's calling the 6th mass extinction
LOCATION:IF YOU GO\n\nWhat: Screening of "Call of Life" and Q&A with filmmakers 
 Chera Van Burg, Monte Thompson and Species Alliance co-founder David 
 Ulansey\n\nWhen: 7 to 10 p.m. Jan. 29\n\nWhere: Sunrise Center, 645 
 Tamalpais Drive, Suite A, Corte Madera\n\nAdmission: Free; silent auction 
 fundraiser for the film's post-production\n\nInformation: 924-7824, 
 www.sunrise-center.org\n
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