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We Are As Gods [Plays April 29 through May 9 in virtual cinema as part of the 2021 Hot Docs Festival in Canada; for information, log on to https://www.hotdocs.ca/p/hot-docs-festival.] David Alvarado and Jason Sussberg's engaging, intriguing, educational, thought-provoking, meandering, 94-minute documentary that focuses on 81-year-old, free-thinking, futurist, environmentalist, eccentric, Stanford-educated biologist Stewart Brand, who created "The Whole Earth Catalog" in 1968, and raises controversy with his goal of bringing back extinct plants, including the American chestnut tree, and species such as the woolly mammoth by injecting DNA into modern-day elephants in an effort to combat climate change and global warming, and it consists of archival photographs and film clips and interview snippets with biologist Paul Ehrlich, journalist Mark Hertsgaard, environmentalists Hunter Lovins and Winona LaDuke, geneticist George Church, entrepreneur Ryan Phelan, Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak, Lois Jennings, American Museum of Natural History paleomammalogist Ross MacPhee, Wired magazine founding editor Kevin Kelly, British musician and artist Brian Eno, computer scientist Danny Hillis, actor and activist Peter Coyote, Apollo astronaut Rusty Schweickart, "Mountain Girl Merry Prankster" Carolyn Garcia, and Pleistocene Park director Nikita Zimov.
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