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. He has three brothers —
John (a former
United States Deputy Secretary of State),
George (President of
the Drawing Center from 2002 to 2007) and
Nicholas (founder of the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology's
Media Lab and of the
One Laptop per Child project). The director studied filmmaking alongside filmmakers
Richard Leacock and
Ed Pincus 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 ==