It says something that out of four feature-length films opening the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, the hottest ticket in town wasn’t the celebrity doc ( Sing Your Song ) or the buddy cop thriller starring two famous-for-an-indie-movie stars ( The Guard ). Instead, Thursday’s big premiere was Project Nim — or, as it was referred to around Park City, “the monkey movie” — a documentary by returning Grand Jury Prize/Audience Award winner James Marsh, whose first and last Sundance debut ( Man on Wire ) went on to win an Oscar.
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Project Nim Opens Sundance, Proves Life Stranger Than Fiction
