‘I Am Greta’ Director on Why Greta Thunberg Can Get Audiences Back to Cinemas
Manori Ravindran International EditorFilmmaker 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 September, often operating as a one-man band shooting quietly in the background with fairly basic camera equipment.“As the movement grew and she grew, and the scope of the film grew, I thought to myself, ‘Jesus, were we too reluctant to bring in heavier gear?’” says Grossman, who met Thunberg in 2018 through a mutual friend who knew of her plans to strike outside the Swedish Parliament.The director, whose previous environment-focused work included a series on meat consumption in Sweden, couldn’t have imagined his