Beata Harju

Beata Harju is a Helsinki-raised actress, screenwriter and filmmaker. At the age of 16 she moved to NYC to attend the Professional Performing Arts School as a musical theatre major. A year later she started her first-year at Sarah Lawrence College in New York. While still in college, Beata and her fellow filmmakers won Duran Duran's worldwide Genero.TV competition, becoming the official music video of their single, "Safe: In the Heat of the Moment". Beata made her national theatre acting debut in 2012 as Honey in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf and Jean in August: Osage County at Svenska Teatern, the Swedish National Theatre in Helsinki, Finland. Her most notable filmmaking credits include screenwriter and Mymble for the Finnish-French co-production, Moomins on the Riviera (2014), based on Tove Jansson's beloved comic strips, and assistant director for the 24-episode TV-series Tommys Supersoffa (2013). She wrote the episode "Enter the Wood Man!" of the animated series Mega Man: Fully Charged. Beata has an MFA in screenwriting from the American Film Institute Conservatory, and a BA from Sarah Lawrence College.