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Miia Tervo (b. 1980)

Birthplace:
Rovaniemi, Finland

Born:
February 18, 1980

Biography from TheMovieDB

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.

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Film Performances

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Film Production

Director:
2009  Little Snow Animal
2013  Santra and the Talking Trees
2015  Clumsy Little Acts of Tenderness
2019  Aurora
2019  Force of Habit
2019  It’s All Right
2019  One-Off Incident
2024  The Missile

Screenplay:
2009  Little Snow Animal
2013  Santra and the Talking Trees
2015  Clumsy Little Acts of Tenderness
2019  Aurora
2019  Force of Habit
2019  It’s All Right
2019  One-Off Incident
2024  The Missile

Writer:
2009  Little Snow Animal
2013  Santra and the Talking Trees
2015  Clumsy Little Acts of Tenderness
2019  Aurora
2019  Force of Habit
2019  It’s All Right
2019  One-Off Incident
2024  The Missile

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TV Production

Director:
2021  Lovi

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