director of the film ‘Almost Forever’
Born 1993 in Stockholm, Sweden. Lia Hietala has her main base in Stockholm but her first short film If I Say No (2016) is financed and takes place in Norway. The film later awarded her the Nordnorsk Film Center's scholarship Springbett, which resulted in her second short film My Gay Sister (2017). The film became very successful, in February 2017 it won the world's most prestigious queer film prize: the Teddy Award for best short film, at the Berlin International Film Festival. Always Amber is her first feature film which also premiered at Berlinale in 2020, panorama section. Almost Forever is her second feature and at the moment she is writing on her first fiction feature SALT.
