- Speaks Spanish, Italian and English.
- He is an attorney, art historian and film writer. He holds a L.LM and a MFA.
- As script consultant, he is a script doctor, which means his work is largely uncredited.
- Lived in Turin and New York during his childhood and adolescence. Lives between Los Angeles and Bogotá.
- His great-grandfather was Carlo Poeti-Marentini (1876-1946), Italian film and photography pioneer, who founded and financed with Giovanni Pastrone Itala Film, the world's 4th oldest film studio. Max Vergara Poeti-Marentini sits as one of the fiduciary trustees for Itala's vast movie archive managed by the National Museum of Cinema (Italy).
- His mother is Italian. He holds dual citizenship (Colombia and Italy).
- Twice (2013 and 2018) he has been the sole finalist for the Barco de Vapor Literature Prize, the most prestigious children's literature award in the Spanish-speaking world.
- Owns production company Gyroscope Films.
- Arts and filmmaking are in his blood: his great-grandfather helped to create the world's fourth oldest film studio, he is related to the Italian Proietti family of actors, and his cousins run today Indigofilm, one of Italy's most successful studios.
- It's a big fan of Italian visual aesthetics of the postmodern age and beyond. Admires Italian directors Fellini, De Sica, Rossellini, Visconti, Pasolini and Bertolucci.
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