‘I Am Greta’ Director Nathan Grossman Takes Two New Climate-Focused Projects to CPH:DOX’s Forum (EXCLUSIVE)

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Christopher Vourlias “I Am Greta” director Nathan Grossman will be taking two new projects in development to the Copenhagen Intl.

Documentary Film Festival (CPH:DOX), one of which he’s revealed exclusively to Variety.The documentary feature, with the working title “Amazonia,” follows a series of expeditions into the Amazon led by Sydney Possuelo, considered the leading authority on Brazil’s remaining isolated indigenous peoples.

Grossman has been granted exclusive access to more than 100 hours of footage, which spans over a decade from the mid-‘90s and includes the first encounter with an uncontacted indigenous group.“It’s a forgotten archive,” says the director. “We’re talking exclusive access to one of the biggest unseen archives from the Amazon region, following years of expeditions in the jungle to find indigenous tribes.” The film – which Grossman describes as an “Indiana Jones”-style “adventure in the jungle” utilizing never-before-seen footage – touches on themes that have preoccupied the director across his growing body of work. “It has huge layers of climate and environment” beneath the surface, he says.This week in Copenhagen, Grossman and “I Am Greta” producer Cecilia Nessen (“Bergman – A Year in a Life”) will also be presenting the documentary “Climate in Therapy” during CPH:FORUM, the festival’s international financing and co-production event, which runs March 28-31.Following the breakout success of their last feature, which charted the spectacular rise of teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg, the duo are looking for partners to help finance, develop and produce the latest projects from one of the leading emerging voices in the field of climate-focused documentary filmmaking. “It’s so rare to be able to.