Hulu is paying tribute to Time’s 2019 Person of the Year. The streamer will premiere an original doc about climate activist Greta Thunberg in 2020, Deadline reports.
Tentatively titled “Greta,” the doc will will chart the 16-year-old eco-warrior’s rise to international fame in her efforts to address climate change. “In August 2018, Thunberg, a 15-year-old student in Sweden, starts a school strike for the climate,” the doc’s logline reads. “Her question for adults: if you don’t care about my future on earth, why should I care about my future in school? Within months, her strike evolves into a global movement. The quiet teenage girl on the autism spectrum becomes a world-famous activist.”
The team behind “Greta” have been following Thunberg “from her early school strike in Stockholm all the way to parliaments and massive international protests, documenting her mission to make the world understand the urgency of the climate crisis,” the source details.
Thunberg made history as the youngest individual to be named Time’s Person of the Year. She was nominated for the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize.
When asked about personal attacks made against her by people who deny climate change, Thunberg said, “It’s sad. You just have to ignore them because they are just desperately trying to remove the focus from the climate crisis to make it something about me as an individual rather than the crisis itself. When they do that, they don’t have any arguments left.”
Hulu recently dropped a teaser for “Hillary,” Nanette Burstein’s docuseries about former Secretary of State and presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton. The series premieres March 6.
