莉亚·格洛，Lea Glob, born in Mariager, Denmark, studied documentary film at the National Film School of Denmark, where she graduated in 2011 with Meeting my Father Kasper Tophat. After her first short films, she co-directed the film Olmo & the Seagull with Petra Costa, which won an award in Locarno in 2015 and was shown at the IDFA. Venus, a collaboration with Mette Carla Albrechtsen, also celebrated its world premiere in Amsterdam in 2016. Glob's film Apolonia, Apolonia won the main prize at IDFA in 2022, received awards at festivals in Gothenburg, Hong Kong and Sofia as well as at CPH:DOX and was nominated for the European Film Award and made it onto the documentary shortlist at the Academy Awards.