Kapadia is best known for his trilogy of narratively driven, archive-constructed documentaries Senna, Amy and Diego Maradona.

[2] Asif Kapadia was born in 1972 in north London, to an Indian Muslim [3][4] British family.

Kapadia has said he sees himself as a Londoner ("a Hackney lad"), northern European, with Indian family heritage.

So I’m quite stubborn, I guess.”[9]Kapadia's first feature film, The Warrior,[10] was shot in the Himalayas and the deserts of Rajasthan.

Far North premiered at the Venice Film Festival, based on a dark short story by Sara Maitland.

Kapadia used the brutal arctic landscape to show how desperation and loneliness drives a woman to harm the person she loves.

Following on from Senna and Amy, Kapadia states: "Maradona is the third part of a trilogy about child geniuses and fame.

[8] In December 2019, along with 42 other leading cultural figures, Kapadia signed a letter endorsing the Labour Party under Jeremy Corbyn's leadership in the 2019 general election.

The letter stated that "Labour's election manifesto under Jeremy Corbyn's leadership offers a transformative plan that prioritises the needs of people and the planet over private profit and the vested interests of a few.

Kapadia apologized, telling BBC News he was "mortified by the hurt and offence" that some of his posts have caused.