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The Business

Nathan Grossman on ‘I Am Greta’

The Business

KCRW

Tv & Film

4.6676 Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2020

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Greta Thunberg began a school strike movement in 2018 outside the Swedish parliament. It gained momentum in Sweden, then spread through the rest of Europe and the world. Filmmaker Nathan Grossman documents her rise to become one of the world’s most prominent climate change activists. His new Hulu documentary is “I Am Greta.”

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0:00.0

From KCRW, I'm Kim Masters, and this is the business.

0:06.0

In 2018, Nathan Grossman started filming a young, unknown climate activist who ended up leading a global movement.

0:14.2

Grossman was there when Greta Toonberg started protesting climate change, sitting on a sidewalk outside the Swedish parliament.

0:20.8

In his new film, I Am Greta, he documents her rise to international icon.

0:25.9

He followed Tunberg as she met with world leaders,

0:28.7

and he tagged along when she made a harrowing journey from Sweden to New York in a very small boat.

0:34.0

Someone showed it to a very important finance here in Hollywood and the only comment

0:40.0

that came was like, I'm getting nauseous of the kind of, I'm getting seasick as by watching this.

0:46.5

Grossman explains why he went along for that ride. But first on the news banter, Murdoch

0:51.4

versus Trump. Who'd have thunk it? Stick around. It's the business from

0:55.3

KCRW. I am joined by my partner in banter, Matt Bellany. Hello, Matt. Hi there. So,

1:06.6

interesting going on in the aftermath of the election, we have seen Donald Trump attacking Fox News.

1:13.8

He is mad at Fox News because, in part, Fox News had called Arizona early on the night of the election.

1:20.7

There was a lot of drama around that.

1:22.1

Turned out to be right, though.

1:23.3

But I think the Trump camp felt that that changed the narrative and the sense of momentum that Trump seemed to have in the early going.

1:31.0

And since then, you know, the non-opinion people on Fox have been kind of glued to reality and referred to Joe Biden as the president-elect.

1:40.8

And this kind of thing incenses Trump and his supporters.

1:46.2

So we are seeing him tweeting and we're seeing these little competitors that hadn't really done that much in terms

1:52.3

of audience. Some of them seem to be picking up audience, possibly because the Trump

1:58.1

Republicans, and we've seen 70 million people voted for Trump.

2:01.6

So that's a lot of people.

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