Born in Finland, Miikka moved to London in 1999
to study at Goldsmith’s College, University of
London for a BA in Media & Communications. After
graduating in 2002, he worked for the BBC until
starting his MA in Editing at the National Film &
Television School (UK) in 2005. Since graduating
in 2007, he has been based in London working as a
freelance Film Editor both in the UK and abroad.

Miikka won the Best Editing award at the Kodak
Student Commercial Competition in 2007, and was nominated for Best Editing at the LA
168 Film Competition in 2008. He was also selected for the Berlinale Talent Campus in
2008. His films have been in official competition at the Cannes Film Festival, Berlin Film
Festival, Sundance Film Festival, Toronto Film Festival and Venice Film Festival, broadcast
on Channel 4, Canal+ and YLE Finland, and won numerous international awards.

Working with a range of directors with diverse styles, his body of work consists of fiction,
documentary, music videos and animation, filmed across the globe from Finland, UK,
France and Romania to the United States, Rwanda, India, China and Japan. Apart from
English, he has edited work in Finnish, French, Kinyarwandan, Hindi, Marwari and
Mandarin Chinese.