Project Nim 13 years old

The world will be a different place once you've seen it through his eyes.

Project Nim

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.

Credits

Project Nim Cast

Name Character
Bern Cohen He was 62, now 75 years old as Dr. William Lemmon
Bob Angelini as Lab Tech
Reagan Leonard as Stephanie LaFarge

Project Nim Crew

Name Department
Michael Simmonds as Director of Photography. Camera
James Marsh as Director. He was 48 (now 61) years old Directing
Dickon Hinchliffe as Original Music Composer. He was 43 (now 57) years old Sound
Jinx Godfrey as Editor. Editing
Project Nim poster
Project Nim (13 years)

The world will be a different place once you've seen it through his eyes.

  • Release day: Friday, July 08, 2011
  • Runtime: 93 minutes