Chimpanzee

Name: Chimpanzee
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2012-04-20
Duration: 1 h 18 min
Rating: 7.2
Cast: Tim Allen

For Oscar, every day is an adventure

Chimpanzee (2012)

Timing: 1:18 (78 min)

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Watch film Chimpanzee — Chimpanzee Official Trailer

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Budget

$5 000 000

Revenue

$34 823 764

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Director

Alastair Fothergill, Mark Linfield

Actors

Tim Allen
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Producer

Alastair Fothergill, Mark Linfield, Alix Tidmarsh, Don Hahn

Operator

Nicholas Hooper

Composer

Nicholas Hooper

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Audition

Editing

Andy Netley
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Short description

A nature documentary centered on a family of chimps living in the Ivory Coast and Ugandan rain forests. Through Oscar, a little chimpanzee, we discover learning about life in the heart of the African tropical forest and follow his first steps in this world with humor, emotion and anguish. Following a tragedy, he finds himself separated from his mother and left alone to face the hostility of the jungle. Until he is picked up by an older chimpanzee, who will take him under her protection.

What's left behind the scenes

The film premiered at the large Disneyworld amusement park, located near Orlando, Florida. Directors Alastair Fothergill and Mark Linfield, as well as primatologist Jane Goodall, who has been studying and protecting chimpanzees in Africa for over 45 years, were specially invited to the screening.
It took more than four years to film the movie in Tai National Park. This national park is located in the west of the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire and is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
At the direction of American distributor Disney Nature, twenty cents from each ticket sold during the first week of release went to the Jane Goodall Institute to support its 'See Chimps, Save Chimps' program. This program helps protect chimpanzees and their habitat, and also carries out educational and outreach work among the local population. Following the successful launch of the documentary, the initiative was extended to the second week of release.