Longtime Toronto Film Festival programmer Dimitri Eipides has died. He was 82. Eipides, who programmed for Toronto for four decades to 2018, passed away in his hometown of Athens after a long illness, TIFF said on Wednesday.
As an international programmer for Toronto, Eipides picked film titles from Eastern and Central Europe, Western and Central Asia and Greece. "Dimitri was a pure, gentle soul and one of the most committed programmers and cinephiles I have ever known," Piers Handling, former CEO and executive director of TIFF, said in a statement. "He knew the cinemas of Eastern Europe, but also Asia and Europe — he travelled extensively — and, despite his apparent shyness, was incredibly well-connected.
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