Asif Kapadia

Neon founder and CEO Tom Quinn has thrown his support behind the documentary form and confirmed the US distributor has boarded Asif Kapadia’s 70 Up, the final film in the long-running UK Up documentary series.

Documentary maker Asif Kapadia had a poster of Kenny Dalglish on his wall as a child. Now he has created a loving tribute.

ITV's long-running 7 Up documentary series is concluding with an "epic and moving" final instalment later this year.

It’s the end of an era: 7 Up, the experimental documentary series that charted the lives of people from childhood to adulthood, is ending after 62 years.

Asif Kapadia is set to complete the final chapter in what has long been considered a landmark and groundbreaking British TV docuseries.

Film-maker says it is ‘incredible honour’ to pick up baton from Michael Apted who died in 2021.
Asif Kapadia will bring the long-running ITV documentary series Up to an end with a concluding instalment that will air this year.

ITV’s long-running 7 Up collection is going to complete its final chapter in an “epic and moving” last instalment: 70 Up.

Asif Kapadia er blant verdens mest anerkjente dokumentarfilmskapere, og har vunnet blant annet Oscar, Grammy, BAFTA og European Film Award. Han vant Oscar for Amy (2015), om livet og karrieren til Amy Winehouse. Andre anerkjente titler i hans filmografi er Senna (2010), Diego Maradona (2019) og hans siste film, Kenny Dalglish (2025).

Starting on Feb. 1, sci-fi fans who subscribe to HBO Max can watch an underrated movie from director Asif Kapadia. 2073 was released in 2024 and was written by Kapadia and Tony Grisoni and stars Samantha Morton (The Whale), Naomi Ackie (Mickey 17), Hector Hewer and Nigel Farage.

After a troika of documentaries examining troubled geniuses Ayrton Senna, Amy Winehouse, and Diego Maradona, Oscar-winning director Asif Kapadia has turned his lens - lovingly - to one of his childhood heroes.

Docs Ireland are delighted to welcome one of their documentary heroes to QFT. Asif Kapadia will be sharing his insights and experiences in a long-form conversation with filmmaker Lisa Barros D’sa (Good Vibrations).

2073, the new film from director Asif Kapadia, opens with a shot of a wildfire blazing through the trees of a hilltop. Its directionless destruction becomes hypnotic, especially as it melds with the images of recent memory: Los Angeles transforming into an inferno.

British filmmaker Asif Kapadia, an Oscar winner with “Amy,” will be the opening speaker of the 23rd edition of the industry program of documentary festival Visions du Réel in Nyon, Switzerland.

Asif Kapadia has directed documentaries including ‘Senna’ about Formula One champion Ayrton and the Amy Winehouse Oscar-winner ‘Amy’. In his new film ‘2073’, he’s delivered a docu-drama set in a future ravaged by climate change, authoritarianism and controlled by tech billionaires.

We are delighted to reveal Guest Curator, Asif Kapadia’s selection of films that will form part of his contribution to this year’s Festival, and that he will take part in an In Conversation event with long-time collaborator Chris King.

The maker of critically acclaimed documentaries such as 'Amy' and 'Senna' has made a film that's part doc, part drama, set in the future. It stars Samantha Morton as an activist forced to live underground in 2073.

Sometimes it can seem as if the line between dystopian fiction and daily headlines is growing increasingly thin. That’s why Oscar-winning director Asif Kapadia has crafted something unprecedented: a documentary set in the future.

From his Oscar-winning Amy Winehouse documentary to his new sci-fi hybrid 2073, Asif Kapadia has consistently defied industry conventions. His journey from working-class Hackney in London to becoming one of Britain’s most innovative filmmakers illuminates how an outsider’s perspective can transform storytelling.

The intersection of directorial vision and collaborative practice represents one of the most complex dynamics in contemporary documentary filmmaking. Director Asif Kapadia’s approach to his latest film, 2073, offers a particularly illuminating case study of how these seemingly opposing forces can be productively synthesized.