How cool is this? They’ve made a movie about Nim Chimpsky called Project Nim!
By the same guys who made Man on Wire, it’s currently been shown at the Sundance Festival.
Nim was raised and nurtured like a human child in order to see to what extent apes could acquire human language.
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.
http://sundance.slated.com/2011/films/projectnim_sundance2011