Miia Tervo

Personal Info

Known For Director

Gender Female

Birthday 1980-02-18 (44 years old)

Place of Birth Rovaniemi, Finland

Miia Tervo

Biography

Miia Tervo (born February 18, 1980 in Rovaniemi) is a Jussi-awarded film director and screenwriter currently living in Helsinki. She grew up in Muurola , the former Rovaniemi rural municipality , 25 kilometers from the center of Rovaniemi. She attended high school in Rovaniemi, after which she moved to Helsinki to work in a restaurant. Then she worked in a fish factory in Norway and volunteered abroad. She studied writing poems at Orivesi College , cinematography in Turku and cinematography at the University of Arts and Sciences (now Aalto University). Tervo has received Kéluvataite artist grants for her films.

Known For

Director

2024
The Missile

as Director

2021
Lovi

as Director

2019
Aurora

as Director

2019
Force of Habit

as Director

2019
One-Off Incident

as Director

2019
It’s All Right

as Director

2009
Little Snow Animal

as Director

Writer

2024
The Missile

as Writer

2019
Aurora

as Writer

2019
Force of Habit

as Writer

2019
It’s All Right

as Screenplay

Actor

2021
The Dinosaur

as Self