Massimo Benvegnù was born in Padova, Italy and majored in Film Studies at the University of Bologna. He has a long established reputation as a programmer and film critic. Massimo authored several books and essays and also worked for major festivals such as Venice, Locarno, Rotterdam and IDFA, and since 2022 has been the co-artistic director, with Chiara Liberti, of the Biografilm Festival in Bologna. He lives in Amsterdam, where he worked for ten years as a programmer for the Eye Filmmuseum.