Kaarle Aho was born in Helsinki in 1968. He has a Master of Arts degree from history from the University of Helsinki and he is an EAVE-graduate 1999 and EURODOC-graduate 2004.
After his studies in Helsinki and in Ireland he promoted Russian classical music in Finland and other Scandinavian countries.
He joined Making Movies, a Helsinki based film production company, as a producer and shareholder in 1998. Since then he has produced three feature films, four TV-dramas and over 60 documentary films and programmes of which many have been screened in international festivals – including Black Ice by Petri Kotwica which was in official competition of Berlinale 2008.
Kaarle Aho was selected in 2008– together with his business partner Kai Nordberg – as producers of the year in Finland by the Finnish film producers organisation.