She was born in Rovaniemi, Finland, [2 ] growing up in the small outlying village of Muurola. [3 ] She spent some time working in a fish processing plant in Norway, [4 ] before studying creative writing and filmmaking at Orivesi College and…
Miia Tervo. Director: Aurora. Award-winning director Miia Tervo grew up by Arctic Circle in Finnish Lapland in a working-class family. Before studying documentary filmmaking at a university-level film school in Helsinki she studied poetry…
Tervo's debut feature film Aurora (2019) was a critical success and had a world premiere as the opening film in Gothenburg, (SXSW) it had its US premiere, and in Edinburgh, it won the Best International Feature.
Tervo‘s debut fiction feature film Aurora (2019) has been a critical success. It premiered as an opening film at Gothenburg Film Festival in January 2019 and is currently touring internationally.