Ilona Ahti – Award-Winning and Versatile Screenwriter & Storyteller

Ilona Ahti is a Finnish screenwriter and author with an MA in both Screenwriting (Aalto University) and Social Sciences (University of Helsinki). She has been to all continents, except Antarctica, and lived in most of them. She has co-written the Sundance World Cinema Dramatic Audience Award winning and Finnish Oscar nominee feature film “Girl Picture” together with Daniela Hakulinen. In 2026, Happy Sassy Beautiful, a film she wrote, was both a box office success and an audience favorite. She is currently developing several television and feature film projects in both English and Finnish.

Beyond film and TV, Ahti has written a middle-grade novel series, Stop Secret Mysteries, and YA-novel based on her and Daniela Hakulinen’s Girls Girls Girls.