Primate Cinema: Apes as Family

Overview

Primate Cinema: Apes as Family is the premiere of a drama made expressly for chimps to an actual chimpanzee audience. Like people, chimps are fascinated by television. But until Apes as Family, no filmmaker had made a film to appeal to two ape species. This film contains all the primate dramas-around sex, food, territory, and politics. The movie follows an urban chimp into her home and what happens when she meets a bunch of wild strangers. The chimpanzees watching on televisions installed at the Edinburgh Zoo were a curious, and at times, rowdy bunch.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

January 19, 2013

Original language

English

Cast

Dawn Meyer,Lex Quarterman,Song Man Choh,Denise Pearlman,J.C. Lee,Heather Sultz

Director

Rachel Mayeri

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt2461346