Aputure Imaging, a privately owned Chinese company founded in 2013, manufactures and sells professional cinema equipment. Its primary focus is on lighting solutions for content acquisition. As of 2019, the company employed approximately 80 people and reported revenues of around $25 million.
Several film productions used Aputure lighting equipment. In 2023, Gareth Edwards' film *For The Creator* employed co-cinematographers Greig Fraser and Oren Soffer. Also in 2023, Chief Lighting Technician Matt Ardine used Aputure lighting on a Coca-Cola commercial. Denis Villeneuve's *Dune: Part Two*, with cinematographer Greig Fraser, also utilized Aputure equipment. In Spring 2024, the Sundance Institute's Directors Lab, utilizing Aputure lighting, relocated to the Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, CO.