Project Nim

Synopsis

From the Oscar-winning team behind 'Man on Wire' comes the story of Nim, the chimpanzee who in the mid-1970s became the focus of a landmark experiment which aimed to show that an ape could learn to communicate with language if raised and nurtured like a human child.
 
Following Nim's extraordinary journey through human society, and the enduring impact he makes on the people he meets along the way, the film is an unflinching and unsentimental biography of an animal we tried to make human. What we learn about his true nature - and indeed our own - is comic, revealing and profoundly unsettling. http://www.project-nim.com/

Details

Year

2011

Type of film

Features

Running Time

95 mins

Director

James Marsh

Producer

John Battsek, Andrew Ruhemann, Jamie Laurenson, Nick Fraser, Hugo Grumbar

Co-Producer

George Chignell, Maureen A Ryan

Editor

Jinx Godfrey

Screenwriter

Based on the book, Nim Chimpsky: The Chimp Who Would Be Human by Elizabeth Hess

Director of Photography

Michael Simmonds

Music

Dickon Hinchliffe

Genre

• Documentary

Production status

Complete

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Last updated 4th February 2011