Michel Negroponte is an American producer and director.

Biography

Negroponte was born to Catherine Coumantaros and

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, a Greek shipping magnate and alpine skier, and grew up in New York City's

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. He has three brothers -

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(a former

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(President of

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from 2002 to 2007) and

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(founder of the

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's Media Lab and of the One Laptop per Child project.) The director studied filmmaking alongside filmmakers

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at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the 1970s. Negroponte has also pursued teaching careers in both graduate and undergraduate film programs at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, Temple University, and the School of Visual Arts in New York City.

Filmography

Director

* 1979: Space Coast (Documentary) * 1981: Resident Exile (Documentary short) * 1984: Silver Valley (Documentary short) * 1994: Jupiter's Wife (Documentary) *1996: No Accident * 2001: W.I.S.O.R. (Documentary) *2003: The Sightseer (unreleased documentary) * 2005: Methadonia (Documentary) * 2010: I'm Dangerous with Love (Documentary) * 2015: An Autobiography of Michelle Maren (Documentary)

Awards and accolades

References

{{Reflist Film producers from New York (state)