Sokrates Kapsaskis was born in Zakynthos in 1928.
He studied Film in Paris (IDHEC) and made his directorial debut in 1958.
In 1966 he turned his back on directing and sought new outlets for his artistic pursuits.
In April 1967 the Junta took over and Greece was under Dictatorship.
Because he couldn’t “bear this pain of intellectual humiliation,” he opened an ArtCinema called “Studio”,
which would for almost 25 years be the source for International Cinema in Greece.