Call of life

Resource Information

The work Call of life represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Evanston Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

Call of life

Statement of responsibility

Video Project presents ; a film by Species Alliance ; directed by Monte Thompson ; produced by Chera Van Burg

Title variation

Facing the mass extinction

Contributor

• Chapela, Ignacio H
• Beissinger, Steven R
• Coyote, Peter
• Daily, Gretchen C
• Dolman, Brock
• Ehrlich, Paul R
• Gomes, Mary E., 1962-
• Hayes, Tyrone
• Jensen, Derrick, 1960-
• Kanner, Allen D., 1952-
• Leakey, Richard E
• Lyons, Oren
• Macy, Joanna, 1929-
• Myers, Norman
• Nelson, Melissa K
• Pimm, Stuart L., (Stuart Leonard)
• Roopnarine, Peter David
• Video Project
• Thompson, Monte
• Tucker, Mary Evelyn
• Van Burg, Chera
• Species Alliance (Organization)
• Vitousek, Peter Morrison
• Zaleha, Bernard Daley

Director

• Thompson, Monte

Narrator

• Coyote, Peter

Producer

• Van Burg, Chera

Subject

• Documentary films
• Biodiversity
• Biodiversity conservation
• Coexistence of species
• Ecological carrying capacity
• Ecology -- Effect of human beings on
• Endangered species
• Environmental films
• Extinction (Biology)
• Feature films
• Nonfiction films
• Population -- Economic aspects
• Population -- Environmental aspects
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired

Genre

• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• Documentary films
• Environmental films
• Feature films
• Nonfiction films

Language

• eng
• eng
• eng

Summary

The film investigates the growing threat posed by the rapid and massive loss of biodiversity on the planet. Examines the primary drivers of species loss: habitat destruction, global warming, pollution, and invasive species, all the result of human population and our consumption patterns. Features leading scientists, social scientists, environmentalists and others

Cataloging source

AU@

Characteristic

videorecording

Credits note

Directors of photography, Steve Davy, Peter McCandless ; editors, Greg Tennant, Monte Thompson ; music, Hans Christian, Richard Wormstall

Language note

In English with optional SDH captions for the deaf and hearing impaired (Broadcast version only)

PerformerNote

Narrator, Peter Coyote; commentary, Gretchen C. Daily, Stuart Pimm, Norman Myers, Ignacio Chapela, Peter D. Roopnarine, Richard Leakey, Peter Vitousek, Tyrone B. Hayes, Bernard Daley Zaleha, Brock Dolman, Paul R. Ehrlich, Mary Evelyn Tucker, Joagquisho (Oren Lyons), Derrick Jensen, Steven R. Beissinger, Allen D. Kanner, Mary Gomes, Joanna Macy, Melissa K. Nelson

Runtime

140

Target audience

adult

Technique

live action