Michel Negroponte is an Emmy award-winning filmmaker with such directing credits as “Space Coast,” “Silver Valley,” “Jupiter’s Wife”, “No Accident,” “W.I.S.O.R.” and “The Sightseer”. His last feature length documentary, “Methadonia”, premiered at the New York Film Festival in September, 2005 and was aired on HBO in the United States a few weeks later.

In 1995, “Jupiter’s Wife” was awarded a Special Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival and the Grand Prize for Best Feature Documentary at the Vancouver Film Festival and the Santa Barbara Film Festival. The film was also awarded an Emmy for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Documentary. Originally shot on small format video, it premiered on HBO/Cinemax before getting a nationwide 35 mm theatrical release.

In addition to his own work, he has worked in a producing capacity on many other films, among them “Bookwars” by Jason Rosette, “Fastpitch” by Jeremy Spear, the Academy Award-nominated “Children Underground” by Edet Belzberg, and “Manhattan, Kansas” by Tara Wray. In 2007, he produced “Orthodox Stance”, a feature documentary directed by Jason Hutt about a young religious boxer named Dmitry Salita.

His current film, “I’m Dangerous with Love” will be release in 2009.

Mr. Negroponte has also taught in the graduate and undergraduate film programs at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and Temple University.

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