Miia Tervo
An image from Aurora, one of the productions that also features Miia Tervo.
Miia Tervo

Miia Tervo

February 18, 1980 — Rovaniemi, Finland

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.

Aurora

Aurora

2019

The Missile

The Missile

2024

Force of Habit

Force of Habit

2019

Little Snow Animal

Little Snow Animal

2009

Clumsy Little Acts of Tenderness

Clumsy Little Acts of Tenderness

2015

One-Off Incident

One-Off Incident

2019

It’s All Right

It’s All Right

2019

Santra and the Talking Trees

2013