In August of 2018, Greta Thunberg, a 15-year-old student in Sweden starts a school strike for the climate. Her question for adults: if you don't care about her future on earth, why should she care about her future in school? Within months, her strike evolves into a global movement. Greta, a quiet Swedish girl on the autism spectrum is now a world famous activist. The film team behind I AM GRETA has been following the young activist from her very first day of school strike from her hometown of Stockholm, across Europe with her father, to her sailing to the US to attend the UN Climate Action Summit.
This film is available for streaming October 10-11 and is followed by a recorded Q&A with director Nathan Grossman moderated by Linda Henry, managing director of The Boston Globe.
- Year2020
- Runtime97 minutes
- LanguageSwedish and English with English subtitles
- CountrySweden
- DirectorNathan Grossman
In August of 2018, Greta Thunberg, a 15-year-old student in Sweden starts a school strike for the climate. Her question for adults: if you don't care about her future on earth, why should she care about her future in school? Within months, her strike evolves into a global movement. Greta, a quiet Swedish girl on the autism spectrum is now a world famous activist. The film team behind I AM GRETA has been following the young activist from her very first day of school strike from her hometown of Stockholm, across Europe with her father, to her sailing to the US to attend the UN Climate Action Summit.
This film is available for streaming October 10-11 and is followed by a recorded Q&A with director Nathan Grossman moderated by Linda Henry, managing director of The Boston Globe.
- Year2020
- Runtime97 minutes
- LanguageSwedish and English with English subtitles
- CountrySweden
- DirectorNathan Grossman