Director

Miia Tervo

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Directed movies: 7Directed series: 1All crew credits: 8

TMDB ID: 1286994

IMDb ID: nm3558606

Known for: Directing

Born: February 18, 1980

Age: 45

Place of birth: Rovaniemi, Finland

Gender: Female

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 2009 - 2024

Years active: 16

Average TMDB rating: 5.54

Wikidata: Q61103371

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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.