Miia Tervo

Biographie

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.

Biographie disponible en anglais sur la source TMDB.