Markéta Hodoušková was born in Prague and holds a Master's degree in Audiovisual and Cinema from the Sorbonne and a Bachelor's degree in Translation from Charles University in Prague. She has contributed to the writing of French subtitles for more than 25 Czech films. She has also served as the General Director of the International Confederation of Arthouses (CICAE).

She is now a member of several European initiatives, including the Paris Council of Europeans, the Observatory of Cultural Diversity, Film New Europe, and the European Network for Cinema and Media Studies.

In 2009, she founded the Czech-In Film Festival in Paris , which aims to promote Czech and Slovak cinema to the French public. In 2014, she also created Kino Visegrad , an agency promoting Central, Eastern and Balkan European cinema in France.