Matteo Zoppis (b. 1986) is an Italian-American director who has been developing a collaborative work with Alessio Rigo de Righi since 2013, when they directed the documentary short film Belva Nera. In 2015 they premiered the award-winning documentary Il Solengo. Their work focuses on folk tales and legends of the peasant tradition and on the incomplete and imperfect mechanism of oral tradition that ends up giving rise to new stories. The Tale of King Crab is their first fiction feature film.