Project Nim
Synopsis
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.
Details
- Year
- 2011
- Type of film
- Features
- Running time
- 95 mins
- Director
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James Marsh
- Producer
- John Battsek, Andrew Ruhemann, Jamie Laurenson, Nick Fraser, Hugo Grumbar
- 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
Categories
Production Status
Production Company
Red Box Films in association with Passion Pictures
33-34 Rathbone PlaceLondon
W1T 1JN
UK
Tel: +44 (0)20 7323 9933
BBC Films
Room 6023BBC Television Centre
Wood Lane
London
W12 7RJ
UK
Tel: +44 (0)20 8576 7265
Fax: +44 (0)20 8576 7268
Sales Company
Icon Entertainment International
Charlotte Building17 Gresse Street
London W1T 1QL
UK
Tel: +44 (0)20 7927 6900
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