Greta Thunberg’s strong words that have loudly echoed across the Globe for the past three years, her actions, her personality, and her mission is compelling enough for an upcoming documentary titled Greta.

This week 17-year old climate activist Greta Thunberg was named as the first recipient of the Gulbenkian “Prize for Humanity” which comes with a 1 million euro endowment from the Portuguese fund. The recipient and founder of the Fridays for Future-movement was chosen from 136 nominations in 46 countries, she thanked the organization and promised to donate the money, “which is more than I can even begin to imagine” as she said in a video message. “It will be given through my foundation to different organizations and projects who are working on the frontlines affected by the climate crisis and ecological crisis, especially in the global South, who are fighting for a sustainable world.”

A day later, the Swede harshly criticized the newest environmental agreement by European Union leaders as completely inadequate. The EU Climate Summit had only found a few “nice words” and accomplished “some vague, distant, incomplete climate targets and a complete denial of the ultimate climate emergency. As long as we keep playing their game on their terms, this is all we’ll get: leftover breadcrumbs”, she wrote on her Twitter. Along with her German Fridays for Future leader, Luisa Neubauer, and her Belgian co-activists Adelaide Charlier and Anuna de Wever, she had called for clear measures against the looming environmental catastrophe caused by inaction. Together they drafted and signed a document stating that European politicians at the summit had refused to address the climate threat and ignored all warnings which is unforgivable they said in strong language.

Greta will tell the story of becoming a trailblazer of environmentalism at the tender age of 14 and a generational icon. It will show her rise from the creator of the 2018 school strike that led to the Fridays for Future which now exists in numerous countries and chronicles her growth into becoming the conscience of the climate crisis. Directed by Nathan Grossman, Greta tells the story of the Swedish teenager who first became interested in climate change at the age of 8 and subsequently convinced her parents to become vegans. Nothing in her family history could be credited with her passion, save for her distant relation to Svante Arrhenius, a scientist who came up with a model of the greenhouse effect and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1903. Her mother, Malena Ernman is an opera singer and her father Svante Thunberg is an actor. The doc also covers her widely circulated passionate speech at the COP25 Climate Change Conference in Madrid. She addressed her frustration at politicians for their ignorance and putting the burden on young people: “How dare you. I shouldn’t be up here. I should be back in school on the other side of the ocean, yet you all come to us young people for hope. How dare you? You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words. We will be watching you.”

The timing of this documentary is apropos. After being named TIME Magazine’s Person of the Year 2019, Thunberg received childish hate tweets from none other than Donald Trump who told her to “chill, work on your anger-management problem and go to a good old-fashioned movie with a friend”. The admonishment backfired when Trump was heavily criticized for verbally attacking a child. Since then, Greta Thunberg has sailed the Atlantic in a zero-emissions boat to attend the United Nations Climate Action Summit and various other meetings all over the world.

And the world will most likely be watching Greta for years to come.