Primate Cinema: Apes as Family

Primate Cinema: Apes as Family

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.

Top Cast

Denise Pearlman

As Carla

Song Man Choh

As Male Chimp

Dawn Meyer

As Female Chimp

J.C. Lee

As Dominant Male

Heather Sultz

As Female Chimp

Lex Quarterman

As Male Chimp