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Nathan Grossman on ‘I Am Greta’
Greta Thunberg began a school strike movement in 2018 outside the Swedish parliament. It gained momentum in Sweden, then spread through the rest of Europe and the world.
By Kim Masters • • 28m ListenFilmmaker Nathan Grossman was working for a production company in Stockholm when he heard of a teenager on a school strike about the government’s inaction on climate change. He ended up documenting Greta Thunberg’s rise as one of the world’s most prominent climate change activists. His new film, “I Am Greta,” is now streaming on Hulu.
Grossman initially had to get over his self-admitted pessimism to make sure Thunberg was worth filming. He discusses why he was initially skeptical of her and how he ultimately convinced himself to follow the young activist across the Atlantic Ocean.
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Having started 2018 as an unknown Swedish teen, Greta Thunberg quickly built a global following based on her school strikes about governments’ inaction on climate change. Since then, she’s met with former U.S.
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