Awarded director Miia Tervo grew up by the Arctic Circle in Finnish Lapland. Her first short films went worldwide including IDFA, and Torino and one received an EFA nomination. Tervo's debut feature film Aurora (2019) was a critical success and had a world premiere as the opening film in Gothenburg, (SXSW) it had its US premiere, and in Edinburgh, it won the Best International Feature. In the Finnish Oscars/ Jussi Awards it won eight awards. Her second feature The Missile (2024) is now on its world tour.