Project Nim

Project Nim

★ 6.9 / 10 · 146 votes

From the team behind Man on Wire comes the story of Nim, the chimpanzee who in the 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.

Status
Released
Studios
Country
United Kingdom
Language
English
Director
Cast
Bob Angelini Bob Angelini Lab Tech
Bern Cohen Bern Cohen Dr. William Lemmon
Reagan Leonard Reagan Leonard Stephanie LaFarge
Nim Chimpsky Nim Chimpsky Self (archive footage)
Stephanie LaFarge Stephanie LaFarge Self
Herbert Terrace Herbert Terrace Self
Wer LaFarge Wer LaFarge Self (archive footage)
Jenny Lee Jenny Lee Self
Laura-Ann Petitto Laura-Ann Petitto Self
Bill Tynan Bill Tynan Self
Joyce Butler Joyce Butler Self
Renne Falitz Renne Falitz Self
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Awards

Nominated for 1 BAFTA Award

BAFTA Awards 1 nominated

  • 2012 Best Documentary Nominated

Directors Guild of America 1 won

  • 2011 Outstanding Directing – Documentaries Won James Marsh

Sundance World Cinema Directing Award: Documentary 1 won

  • 2011 Sundance World Cinema Directing Award: Documentary Won

Satellite Award for Best Documentary Film 1 nominated

  • 2011 Best Documentary Film Nominated

Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Documentary Film 1 nominated

  • 2011 Best Documentary Film Nominated

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