Despina Ladi
Writer
Despina Ladi is an award-winning Greek screenwriter, script editor and journalist based in London.
She has collaborated with British screenwriter Tony Grisoni on various film and TV projects, including Paolo Sorrentino’s “The Young Pope” for HBO.
She is currently co-writing, with multi-award-winning filmmaker Dania Bdeir, the TV dramedy series “Rent-a-Mama”. The project received development funding from Canada Media Fund, Bell Media and the CBC and was selected for the Series Mania Writers Campus 2023 and the TorinoFilmLab Series Lab.
As a journalist, Despina has written for leading international publications including The Guardian, Sight & Sound and The Huffington Post, while her monthly column “Life: Two or Three Things I Know About It”, featuring interviews with acclaimed artists, was published into a book in 2011.
She has also worked in a range of other roles for organisations such as The Walt Disney Company, the BFI London Film Festival and the Greek Film Centre.
She holds a BA in Media and Communications from the University of Athens and an MA in Screenwriting from the London Film School.
She is an alumna of Berlinale Talents, TorinoFilmLab, Series Mania Institute, MFI Script 2 Film and Sundance Collab.
She is a member of Women in Film and TV UK and of The London Library. In 2023 she was selected as part of the BAFTA Connect new cohort.