Miia Tervo

Birthday: 1980-02-18
Birthplace: Rovaniemi, Finland
Gender: Female

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.

Credits

Year Title
2024-02-02 The Missile
2019-09-27 Force of Habit
2019-09-25 One-Off Incident
2019-09-25 It’s All Right
2019-01-25 Aurora
2015-12-21 Clumsy Little Acts of Tenderness
2013-01-01 Santra and the Talking Trees
2009-08-28 Little Snow Animal