Trailer and First 6 Minutes for the Doc PROJECT NIM - From the Director of MAN ON WIRE

The documentary Project Nim got a lot of buzz up at the Sundance Film Festival this year, I didn't get a chance to see it but I heard it was great. The film was directed by James Marsh (Man on Wire) and it focuses on a chimp named Nim Chimsky who was the subject of an extended study of animal language acquisition experiment in the 1970s. In the experiment the chimp was raised as a human child and taught American Sign Language so that he could communicate with people. Sounds like the true life beginnings of Planet of the Apes. 

Here's the Synopsis:

From the Oscar-winning 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.

Check out the trailer and footage for the film below and tell us what you think! The film is slowly opening up in select cities.