Portfolio Category: Films & TV

A Tear in the Desert

Christian Peschken and Robert Joseph Ahola, co-creators [2010]  A Tear in the Desert is a film unlike any other in that it is a “war story” that transcends the meaning of war. In doing so, it pierces the ugly mask of death, destruction and dismemberment and finds its way straight into the subtext of redemption and...
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Arethusa

Screenplay by Robert Joseph Ahola [2009] A handsome young American author with a tragic political past comes into the life of a jaded, dysfunctional British social circle. And nothing will ever quite be the same again — for anyone! Set in the post Beatles London of 1973 and the intellectual hinterlands...
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Taking Maria Home

Screenplay by Robert Joseph Ahola [1999] Strong Italian family ties take hold when the Marconi Clan matriarch Maria Montebello dies, and her forty-something son Tony will do anything to answer her final request — that he return to Carnival in Venice to scatter her ashes over the Canal. Meanwhile, he will also...
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World Class

Screenplay by Robert Joseph Ahola [2008] The man who might have been the greatest white heavyweight since Rocky Marciano was never actually a champion. He was also a near genius who ended up becoming the poster boy for pugilistic dementia. A powerful family saga of love, death and redemption and scathing portrait...
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