Mervi Junkkonen

Mervi Junkkonen (born 1975) is a Finnish documentary filmmaker and film editor based in Uppsala, Sweden. She studied film at Aalto University in Helsinki, Finland. Her debut film as a director was Barbeiros (2001), which won the First Appearance prize at the International Documentary Film Festival of Amsterdam (IDFA) in 2002. She has directed several award winning documentary films and worked as an editor on numerous documentary and fiction films. Mervi has received the Jussi Prize (the Finnish "Oscar") for her editing of the feature films The Visitor (2009), They Have Escaped (2014) and Dogs Don't Wear Pants (2019), respectively. In recent years she has also begun working with video art and dance films.