PROJECT NIM (WORLD CINEMA DIRECTING AWARD: DOCUMENTARY): " TRAILER" (VO) - " TRAILER" (VOSTFR) - FILM CLIPS (VO): " HEAVEN" - " PERSONALITY" - " PLAY" -
HBO Documentary Films, BBC Films and UK Film Council presents A Red Box Films Production in association with Passion Pictures Produced by Simon Chinn Directed by James Marsh " PROJECT NIM " Running time: 93 minutes Shot on: RED / Super 16mm Produced by Simon Chinn Film Editor Jinx Godfrey Executive Producers John Battsek Andrew Ruhemann Executive Producers Jamie Laurenson Nick Fraser Hugo Grumbar Director of Photography Michael Simmonds Original Music by Dickon Hinchliffe Co-Producers George Chignell Maureen A. Ryan Based on the book Nim Chimpsky: The Chimp Who Would be Human By Elizabeth Hess Orchestra Recorded at Air Studios, London by Rupert Coulson Drums recorded at Eastcote Studios, London by Philip Bagenal Mixed at Eastcote Studios, London by Philip Bagenal Assistant: Sam Navel Conducted by Steve Sidwell Orchestra Leader and Contractor Lucy Wilkins Drums by Al Macaulay Produced and arranged by Dickon Hinchliffe Music preparation by Richard Sidwell Music Supervisor Liz Gallacher ADDITIONAL MUSIC ‘The Ripper’ Written by Dickon Hinchliffe Licensed by of Bug Music Ltd ‘Perpetuum Mobile’ Written by Simon Jeffes Performed by the Penguin Café Orchestra Licensed by arrangement with Editions Penguin Café Ltd. Licensed courtesy of Virgin Records Ltd SHORT 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. DICKON HINCHLIFFE, COMPOSER Dickon Hinchliffe is a founding member of the British band Tindersticks. From 1993 to 2005, Tindersticks released six critically acclaimed studio albums, including two soundtrack albums on Island Records and Beggars Banquet. Hinchliffe began scoring films with the acclaimed French director Claire Denis when she approached Tindersticks to write the scores to her films NENETTE ET BONI and TROUBLE EVERY DAY. He then scored Ira Sachs’ films FORTY SHADES OF BLUE (Grand Jury prize-winner at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival) and MARRIED LIFE. Further film scores followed for KEEPING MUM, the Golden Globe-nominated romantic drama LAST CHANCE HARVEY, directed by Joel Hopkins, and the New York-based COLD SOULS, directed by Sophie Barthes, which premiered at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival. Hinchliffe then wrote the soundtrack for James Marsh’s screen adaptation of the second of the Red Riding trilogy of novels, the highly acclaimed RED RIDING 1980. Hinchliffe recently completed the music for 2010 Sundance Grand Jury Prize-winning WINTER’S BONE. The songs of Tindersticks and Hinchliffe’s compositions have featured in a number of television series including THE SOPRANOS, THE BROTHERHOOD and THE SINS. American Humane Association monitored the animal action. No animals were harmed®. (AHAD 02169) Developed with the assistance of BBC Films Made with the support of the UK Film Council’s New Cinema Fund and Development Fund A Red Box Films production in association with Passion Pictures for BBC and the UK Film Council © Project Nim Ltd/UK Film Council, 2011 PROJECT NIM 004 / Laura-Ann Petitto teaching Nim Chimpsky sign language, as seen in PROJECT NIM. Photo credit: Susan Kuklin.