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Free Members-Only Screening: Lucy the Human Chimp May05-06 Location Film Independent Presents Online Screening Room Tickets FREE for Members + 1 guest Film Independent Members, you and a guest are invited to watch HBO Max’s Lucy the Human Chimp in our Film Independent Presents Online Screening Room, powered by Vision Media. A special pre-recorded conversation with writer/director Alex Parkinson, moderated by Jenn Wilson (Senior Programmer, Film Independent), is included as part of this screening experience. Lucy the Human Chimp ...

A stirring double portrait. TWITTER 4/29/2021 Alex Parkinson's documentary is a first-person account of an extraordinary bond between a famous chimpanzee and the young caretaker who befriended her in the second half of her life. There's no such thing as a human chimp, but half a century ago a chimpanzee's conditioning by her human "parents" famously blurred the lines. Lucy Temerlin lived in the suburbs with a psychologist and his wife, went for rides with them in the station wagon, and enjoyed the occasional gin and tonic. After a point, though — that point being puberty — she spent most ...

The feature documentary Lucy the Human Chimp from Keo Films and Channel 4 will debut April 29 on HBO Max. The film tracks the story of Lucy Temerlin, a female chimpanzee raised as human from birth in a domestic environment, and Janis Carter, the woman who took on the seemingly impossible task of giving her a new life in the wild. Directed by Alex Parkinson, the doc centers on Carter’s first-person account of life with Lucy beginning in 1960s suburban America and ending decades later in a remote African jungle. The film showcases home movies, archival film and photographs from the personal...