Michel Negroponte is an American producer and director.
Biography
Negroponte was born to Catherine Coumantaros and
Dimitrios Negrepontis, a Greek shipping magnate, alpine skier and member of the
Negroponte family, and grew up in New York City's
Upper East Side
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. He has three brothers —
John
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(a former
United States Deputy Secretary of State
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),
George
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(President of
the Drawing Center
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History
The Drawing Center was founded by former assistant curator of dr ...
from 2002 to 2007) and
Nicholas
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(founder of the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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's
Media Lab and of the
One Laptop per Child project).
The director studied filmmaking alongside filmmakers
Richard Leacock
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and
Ed Pincus
Edward Ralph Pincus (July 6, 1938 – November 5, 2013) studied philosophy and photography at Harvard, and began filmmaking in 1964, developing a direct cinema approach to social and political problems. He has producer-director-director of pho ...
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
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Film producers from New York (state)