Born in Rome, Italy, in 1976, Massimiliano now lives in Bucharest, Romania. Since 2007 he works in the cinema industry as artistic director and programmer for festivals around Europe. Among them, a few to mention are Brest European Short Film Festival and Amerique Latine Biarritz (France), Arcipelago (Italy), Winterthur (Switzerland), Next, Timishort and Divan (Romania). Currently, Massimiliano is also programmer for Torino Short Film Market (Italy) and head of selection and talent scouting for LESS IS MORE talent lab. He‘s voting member for the french CESAR and romanian GOPO awards.
He has been script advisor for several short and feature films. Under the moniker PIPE‘S NOT DEAD! he creates soundtracks and audiovisual productions. He smokes pipe and loves whisky.
