Koura Linda grew up notorious for elaborate birthday party decorations and painting murals on any wall she could. She loved anything creative, and started writing out character developments, script ideas, and shot lists in her notebooks. As soon as she could legally hold a job she was working as an art teacher’s assistant.
Fast forward about a decade, after stumbling in with art department crew one summer, she quickly fell in love with it and spent the next 10 years working on set and event design, eventually getting into full production design, while working professionally in administrative roles including marketing, public relations, and sales.
Never officially finishing high school, or going to film school, art school, or college, Koura knew that experience and competence go hand-in-hand, so she sought out internships, apprenticeships, and any opportunity for hands-on work in Hollywood while taking any additional classes she could.
She worked as a day player, and studied acting, writing, camera, and lighting. She took a rigging intensive to get certified as a set rigger and then worked on event spaces and stages throughout the West Coast from Seattle to Los Angeles to Phoenix to Las Vegas, designing and rigging lights and sets.
Following a sudden and critical medical event in 2011, Koura was forced to reevaluate her life and decide how to move forward with physical limitations and disabilities.
Determined to continue as a professional artist, she worked to learn how to navigate the not exactly accessible world of the traditional film industry. In 2013, Space Dream Productions was born as an independent production company with a focus on exemplifying that filmmakers are ambassadors of humanity, charged with sharing their stories. In 2020, her husband, Spaceship, officially joined the company as a co-owner and Executive Vice President.
Since releasing their first film in 2016, Koura has been personally nominated for and won multiple awards in every major category of filmmaking including directing, producing, writing, acting, editing, production design, cinematography, VFX, and sound. She’s also a contributing artist to 2 Emmy Award wins for Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s production company hitRECord, and has overseen post-production of client projects nominated for and winning multiple Webby and Telly awards.
She is a proud recipient of the Mico Award for her courage, innovation, and excellence in a career in film, and was named the NOVA International Film Festival Artist of the Year. One of her feature screenplays, “Nine Tenths of The Law”, co-written with creative partner Nick Gambino, finished as a Slamdance Screenplay Quarter Finalist in the Top 30 of 4000+ screenplays.
