Michel Dimopoulos Dies: Former Thessaloniki Film Festival Director Was 74
deadline.comMichel Dimopoulos, former director of the Thessaloniki International Film Festival, has died. He was 74. Dimopoulos served as Thessaloniki’s artistic director from 1991 to 2005.
In a statement published Thursday afternoon, the festival said Dimopoulos brought a “fresh breath of originality” to Thessaloniki during his tenure and “expanded the institution’s international horizons.” “Michel had always been on the side of the Festival and its people.
He was an ardent film lover and a passionate supporter of independent European cinema,” the statement read. “He will live on in Olympion’s corridors, in the Port, inside the movie theaters, tireless and with a smile on his face, soulfully speaking for the films he loved, expanding our horizons and introducing us to the pioneering and restless cinema of the new era.” Dimopoulos was born in 1949 in Paris.
He studied cinema in France and began his career as a film critic in Avgi, a daily left-wing newspaper published in Athens, Greece.
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