Luis Arturo Tapia is a director, cinematographer, and producer. Born in Mexico and raised in Texas, he moved to Shanghai in 2002 after graduating from Princeton University with a degree in East Asian Studies. In 2006 he co-founded the creative production studio Daedalum Films. After two decades based in Shanghai and Hong Kong, he now runs the studio between Dallas and Hong Kong and works internationally.

Over 20 years Luis Arturo's work has spanned commercial, industrial, web, broadcast, livestream, documentary, and narrative across more than 100 projects. His work has appeared on the BBC, Discovery, Dragon TV, ESPN, International Channel Shanghai, iQiyi, National Geographic, The Olympic Channel, Tencent, ViX, at the Venice Biennale, and in film festivals around the world.