2021Nominee
Best Performance
The Dinosaur
Miia Tervo
Actor · Director · Writer
Rovaniemi, Finland
February 18, 1980
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.
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Representative Works
Awards and Honors
Critical Favorites
2019Nominee
Best Director
Aurora
2026Nominee
Best Performance
The Squirrel
Career Highlights
2019Highlight
Best Director
One-Off Incident
2009Highlight
Best Director
Little Snow Animal