‘I Am Greta’ Director on Why Greta Thunberg Can Get Audiences Back to Cinemas

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Filmmaker Nathan Grossman has followed Greta Thunberg’s remarkable journey from the earliest stages of her school strike for climate in 2018 to the United Nations Climate Action Summit last Septemb…

, the film is set to play movie theaters in Europe, North America and Australia on Oct. 16, ahead of its release on Hulu in the U.S. on Nov. 13.

In the early days of filming, how did you navigate forming a relationship with Greta, and gaining her trust? That’s probably one of the things that makes climate change a hard subject to make interesting. We had scenes where she was in Davos and this very famous climate scientist, Johan Rockström, explained lots of things in a panel and it was really interesting. But when we compiled the film and those [scenes] were specifically in it, it felt kind of off when the rest of the movie tried to be more personal. I also felt that you can’t do everything with a film.

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