Dinos Katsouridis, a unique persona of Greek cinema, is a man who has done it all, or nearly all. From assistant director of Grigoris Grigoriou at Finos Films, to assistant cameraman and scene photographer, and later director of photography and production, as well as producer and director.
On account of the 50th anniversary of his continuous and fertile presence in Greek cinema, the Thessaloniki Film Festival presents him with the honorary Golden Alexander award. This special award presentation will take place on the evening of Saturday, November18th in the Pavlos Zannas auditorium. Ioannis Bakogiannopoulos, the Cinematography Counselor of the Ministry of Culture, the Festival's director Michel Demopoulos, and directors Pantelis Voulgaris and Vasilis Vafeas will give speeches about Dinos Katsouridis' work and contributions. The president of the Thessaloniki Film Festival, Theo Angelopoulos, will present him with the Golden Alexander award and following that, will be the showing of a 15-minute video of the autobiography that he filmed himself. The evening will close with the film I Adistaktoi with the attendance of Nikos Kourkoulos who in 1965 won the award for Best Leading Actor in the film.

Dinos Katsouridis was born in Lefkosia, Cyprus in 1927. In the midst of the 50s' he moved to Athens to study Medicine but soon found himself in the recently established Stavrakou School where he studied film direction and just six months later taught photography. His first major job in the cinema was as assistant director to Grigorios Grigoriou in the film Pikro Psomi, while later he collaborated with Spentzos as a technician in the film Amartisa gia to paidi mou. For the following eight years he worked with Finos Films as cameraman and stage photographer in 21 films, collaborating with some of the biggest names in cinema and theatre of the time: Tzavelas, Sakelarios, Avlonitis, Logothetidis and Stavridis.

In 1960 he makes his first film as director, bringing M. Skouloudis' theatrical play Imai athoos on screen. His next film, which followed the film noir model, Eglima sta paraskinia was shown at the Thessaloniki Film Festival and won the award for Best Photography (Karidis-Fouks) and Best Supporting Actress (Zorz Sarri).

His next films Kirios Pterarhos, Tis kakomiras, and I Adistakti are just as successful while at the same time he collaborates with Giorgios Tzavelas, Alekos Sakellarios, Pantelis Voulgaris, and others, as director of photography and on montage. For the past two decades he has tirelessly continued to work and contribute in cinema, helping new cinematographers with his invaluable experience.

One of the most important points, if not the milestone, of his career was the period 1971-1972 when he filmed the movies Ti ekanes ston polemo Thanasi and Thanasi pare to oplo sou. Through these two films which constitute landmarks for domestic cinema, Dinos Katsouridis put forth a firm message with implications against the seven years of the junta, whilst rendering the talent of one of the most significant actors of Greek cinema, Thanasis Veggos, in his extraordinary role of a wretched man characterized by defeatism, and transformed into a decent person with fighting spirit.