I Am Greta director Nathan Grossman first began filming climate change activist Greta Thunberg long before the Swedish teenager became an international cause célèbre.“It started with a tip…that told us she was going to do some kind of a small [protest] outside the Swedish government,” Grossman says during Deadline’s Contenders Documentary awards-season event, recalling that Thunberg sat alone against a stone wall holding a sign reading “School Strike for the Climate.” “That was the first time I saw her.”Grossman went on to spend more than a year with Thunberg and her family for his Hulu documentary.
He tells Deadline that he didn’t anticipate the teen’s protest would ignite a movement.“She’s interesting and she has a special way of speaking
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