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.
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