Despina Kourti was born in Rhodes. She studied Law at the University of Athens and at the same time she trained as a filmmaker. Her first short film ”The Doll” (2014) was screened at the 20th Athens International Film Festival. Her second short film ”Ourania” won at the 40th International Short Film Festival of Drama (Northern Greece) four awards:Tonia Marketaki award for Best Female Director, Greek Film Critics Association award, monetary prize ”Motive” of the Greek Film Center, award for best actress to Fotini Baxevani). It was also won the Screenplay award at the 23rd Athens International Film Festival, and was shown at the 48th Thessaloniki International Film Festival as well as at Tirana International Film Festival 2018. Also in 2018, Despina Kourti won the ARTWORKS SNF Artist Fellowship award. She is currently working at the pre-production of her next short film, produced by Homemade Films.