About the film
Project Nim is a 2011 documentary film directed by James Marsh. It tells the life story of a chimpanzee named Nim Chimpsky, who was the center of a 1970s research project to determine whether a primate could learn to speak using American Sign Language. Project Nim draws from Elizabeth Hess' book Nim Chimpsky: The Chimp Who Would be Human (2008).
From the film's Wikipedia article (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Awards on record
- Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Documentaries
- Sundance World Cinema Directing Award: Documentary