Teresa Väli, age 35 (born 18.04.1989), attended the Film Arts: Directing program at the Baltic Film, Media and Arts School, graduating in 2020. Arriving at film school relatively late in life (at age 27), she had previously explored a number of other avenues and interests, pursuing two alternative university degrees, Philosophy and Audiovidual Media, writing music and running a small clothing design studio.

Her interest in writing sparked at age 12, through poetry, and a sudden interest in directing followed three years later, when accidentally finding herself helping put together a school play. All through high school she attended an intensive drama program, but as much as she loved being on stage, the experience made it quite clear that theatre was not her medium and acting was not her path. Still it took almost another decade to put the full picture together and arrive at film directing.

During her studies she was invited to intern on a feature film doing continuity. Putting a lot of thought into what the position actually entails and how continuity could be a truly useful partner for the director, she became passionate about the job and has been a script supervisor ever since.

Teresa directed 3 shorts in films school and has written and directed 1 short film after graduating.
She has worked as script supervisor on 13 feature films, 4 short films, 2 TV shows and 1 narrative game.