Miia Tervo (born February 18, 1980) is a Finnish film director and screenwriter, whose debut feature film ''

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'' was released in 2019. She was born in

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, Finland, growing up in the small outlying village of Muurola. She spent some time working in a fish processing plant in

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, before studying creative writing and filmmaking at Orivesi College and

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. She directed a number of short films in her early career. The most noted of these, ''Little Snow Animal (Lumikko)'', won the Grand Prix for Best Short Film at the 2010

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, and was a nominee for Best short Film at the

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. ''Aurora'' premiered at the

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in 2019. The film won seven

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in 2020, including

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, and two wins for Tervo in

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and Best Screenplay. It was also Finland's submission to the

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in 2019. Her second feature film, ''

The Missile ''The Missile'' () is a 2024 Finnish-Estonian comedy-drama film written and directed by Miia Tervo. Based on the true story of a Soviet missile that crashed at Lake Inari in 1984, the film stars Oona Airola as Niina, an archivist for the local n ...

(Ohjus)'', was screened in 2023 as a work-in-progress at the

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's Finnish Film Affair, where it won the award for Best Fiction Project. It premiered on 27 January 2024 at the Göteborg Film Festival,Annika Pham
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''

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'', 9 January 2024.

Filmography

*''The Seal (Hylje)'' - 2005 *''Little Snow Animal (Lumikko)'' - 2009 *''Santra and the Talking Trees (Santra ja puhuvat puut)'' - 2013 *''Clumsy Little Acts of Tenderness (Pieniä kömpelöitä hellyydenosoituksia)'' - 2015 *''It's All Right (Ei mitään hätää)'' - 2019 *''

'' - 2019 *''Lovi'' - 2021 (TV series, eight episodes) *''

(Ohjus)'' - 2024

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Tervo, Miia 1980 births Living people 21st-century Finnish screenwriters 21st-century Finnish women writers Finnish film directors Finnish women film directors Finnish women screenwriters Finnish television directors Women television directors People from Rovaniemi