PROJECT NIM (original) (raw)

Director / James Marsh
Produced by / Simon Chinn
Executive Producers / Jamie Laurenson, Nick Fraser, Hugo Grumbar, John Battsek, Andrew Ruhemann

From the Academy Award winning team behind Man on Wire, producer Simon Chinn and director James Marsh, 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.

Project Nim will have its world premiere in the World Cinema Documentary Competition at Sundance Film Festival 2011 /

9:30 PM Thu / Jan 20 Egyptian Theatre / Park City
10.00 PM Thu / Jan 20, Yarrow Hotel Theatre / Park City (Press & Industry Screening)
6:00 PM Fri / Jan 21 Screening Room / Sundance Resort
6:30 PM Sat / Jan 22 Peery's Egyptian Theater / Ogden
11:30 AM Sun / Jan 23 Prospector Square Theatre / Park City
9:00 AM Wed / Jan 26 Yarrow Hotel Theatre / Park City
3:30 PM Fri / Jan 28 Holiday Village Cinema II / Park City

For further information on Sundance visit / www.sundance.org/festival

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North America /
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Publicity Contacts /

Sundance /
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