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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced that 15 films in the Documentary Feature category will advance in the voting process for the 84th Academy Awards. One hundred twenty-four pictures had originally qualified in the category.

The 15 films are listed below in alphabetical order by title, with their production company:

Battle for Brooklyn (Rumer Inc.)

Bill Cunningham New York (First Thought Films)

Buck (Cedar Creek Productions)

Hell and Back Again (Roast Beef Productions Limited)

If A Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front (Marshall Curry Productions, LLC)

Jane's Journey (Neos Film GmbH & Co. Kg)

Long Way Home: The Loving Story (Augusta Films)

Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory (@radical.media)

Pina (Neue Road Movies GmbH)

Project Nim (Red Box Films)

Semper Fi: Always Faithful (Tied to the Tracks Films, Inc.)

Sing Your Song (S2BN Belafonte Productions, LLC)

Undefeated (Spitfire Pictures)

Under Fire: Journalists in Combat (Juf Pictures,...

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Yahoo! Movies got their hands on the first 6 minutes of the upcoming film “Project Nim” directed by James Marsh and starring Bob Angelini, Bern Cohen and Reagan Leonard. 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...

Project Nim

Directed by: James Marsh

Starring: Bob Angelini, Bern Cohen, Reagan Leonard

Rating: PG-13

Release Date: July 8, 2011

Trailer Score: 8/10

Thoughts by Tsr: The title chimp does wear a sweater in this trailer, but that isn’t the main selling point of this trailer. In fact, while a movie with a poster similar to Project Nim’s could load up on its cute factor, this movie seems to get straight into its point of creating a biography of its center chimp. Immediately the trailer becomes about the similarities between a chimp’s brain to our own, which to me serves as an excellent thesis statement. In fact, this trailer could have been a minute shorter, and I probably wouldn’t have thought anything different.

James Marsh did something special with his previous Oscar-winning documentary, Man on Wire, and it looks like this is going to be a similar case here.

To celebrate the UK premiere of James Marsh's award-winning new film Project Nim, three new clips have been unveiled by Icon Film Distribution.

The film, directed by Marsh and produced by Simon Chinn, will premiere at documentary festival Sheffield Doc/Fest on Friday, June 10, and Sunday, June 12, and at the Edinburgh International Film Festival on June 18 and 20.

With a cast including Bob Angelini, Bern Cohen, Reagan Leonard and Bob Ingersoll, it goes on general release in the UK on August 12, with a 12A certificate and 99mins running time.

Project Nim won the World Cinema Documentary Directing Award at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival and the Outstanding Achievement in Documentary accolade at the Newport Beach Film Festival.

The three clips, plus a synopsis and an Edinburgh International Film Festival video, are included below.

The official description is as follows:

From the Oscar and BAFTA winning filmmakers behind Man on Wire, James Marsh and Simon Chinn,...

Roadside Attractions have unveiled the first official trailer for upcoming documentary feature Project Nim.

Directed by James Marsh (Man on Wire), Project Nim stars Bob Angelini, Bern Cohen and Reagan Leonard.

Nim is a 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.

Project Nim premiered at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, and will be shown simultaneously at the 65th Edinburgh International Film Festival and the 2011 Sheffield Doc/Fest in June.

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