From the director and the producer of the Academy Award® winning 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... MORE >

From the director and the producer of the Academy Award® winning 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.

An audience favourite at this year’s Sydney Film festival and Winner of the World Cinema Documentary Directing Award at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, PROJECT NIM “powerfully explores the line between human and animal so that you understand nature versus nurture in a completely different way (The Village Voice).”