SilverDoc Film Festival in two weeks

[neotoma]

I'm going to be taking off a few days to attend Silverdocs in two weeks -- anyone else interested in seeing documentary films, or just meeting up for a meal or two in Silver Spring on that Thursday, Friday, or Saturday? I'm definitely interested in seeing Project Nim, about Nim Chimpsky.

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[chomiji]

Our daughter will be working at it as a volunteer again (this will be her third year). So you might see her down there.

But she's usually behind the scenes, working on clips of the day's films to post on their Website and things like that.

[neotoma]

I think I'll aim for two movies a day, since I do have to sleep *sometime*...

I bet being a volunteer at Silverdocs is *exhausting*.

[zvi]

Did you have any particular docs in mind? Since I wasn't planning on going, I don't want to distract you from things you wanted to see, but not everything sounded like something I was interested in…

[neotoma]

The only thing I'm firm about right now is 'Project Nim', though I'd like to get the documentary about nutrition in Baltimore public schools, too. I need to look over the schedule when I have enough brain to make decisions, which I really don't after work this week (so, maybe I'll know on Saturday).

I'm definitely going on Thursday and Friday, even if I wind up watching utterly weird stuff.

[zvi]

Those both sound like things I could be up for. Let me know more as you schedule gets firmer.

[gloss]

Project Nim blew me away when I saw it a couple weeks ago. It's fantastically powerful.

[neotoma]

It looks interest, for certain. Do they compare the Nim reseach to Washoe at all?

[gloss]

Nope - it's far less a documentary about the project than it is about Nim's life and the people in it. I mean, there is a subtheme on the rate of acquisition of words, but the film doesn't attempt to answer whether he quote-unquote "really" learned language.