Who was Michel Dimopoulos? Former Thessaloniki Film Festival Director Dead at 74

Former Thessaloniki Film Festival Director, Michel Dimopoulos has been reported dead. He died at the age of 74. However, his cause of death was not disclosed.

“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. He will live on in Olympion’s corridors, in the Port, inside the movie theatres, 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,” a statement by the organization reads.

He served as Thessaloniki’s artistic director for 14 years; from 1991 to 2005. He also served as a member of the Camera d’Or Jury at the 1995 Cannes Film Festival.

Born in Paris in 1949,  Dimopoulous studied cinema in France and started his career as a film critic in Avgi, a publication located in Athens, Greece.

Dimopoulos was also featured as an actor in numerous Greek movies including Attenberg.