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David Osit

Born May 6, 1987 (age 39)

DAVID OSIT is a three-time Emmy and Peabody Award-winning documentary film director, editor and composer. He is the director of PREDATORS (2025) which premiered at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival. The film was named one of the best films of the year by the New York Times and Indiewire, and was released in theaters across the US and UK in Fall 2025 before premiering on Paramount+ worldwide in Decem…

Known For

Primetime

Primetime · 2026

MovieDramaThriller

In 2006, To Catch a Predator host Chris Hansen sets out to make television history. When a high stakes operation goes fatally wrong, his veneered dream of fame curdles into a nightmare of performative justice.

Procession

Procession · 2021

MovieDocumentary

Six men who were sexually abused by Catholic clergy as boys become a makeshift family and find empowerment by creating films inspired by their trauma.

Predators

Predators · 2025

MovieDocumentaryCrime

In the mid-aughts, Dateline NBC's To Catch a Predator drew millions of weekly viewers to watch sting operations: men planning to meet minors for sex would instead be confronted by polished host Chris Hansen, then by the police — all on hidden camera.

The Antisocial Network: Memes to Mayhem

The Antisocial Network: Memes to Mayhem · 2024

The Antisocial Network: Memes to Mayhem

MovieDocumentary

From Rickrolling to viral conspiracy theories, explore how an anonymous website evolved into a hub for real-world chaos in this documentary.

In Transit

In Transit · 2015

MovieDocumentary

The Empire Builder is America’s busiest long-distance train route, running from Chicago to Seattle. Throughout these corridors sit runaways, adventurers, and loners – a myriad of passengers waiting to see what their journey holds. A touching and honest observation, co-directed by the iconic Albert Maysles, In Transit breathes life into the long commute, and contemplates the unknowns that lie at our final destination.

Collective: Unconscious

Collective: Unconscious · 2016

Collective: Unconscious

MovieDramaMystery

A man and his grandmother hide out from an ominous broadcast. The Grim Reaper hosts a TV show. The formerly incarcerated recount and reinterpret their first days of freedom. A suburban mom's life is upturned by the beast growing inside of her. And a high school gym teacher runs drills from inside a volcano. What happens when five of independent film's most adventurous filmmakers join together to literally adapt each other’s dreams for the screen?

Live from New York!

Live from New York! · 2015

Live from New York!

MovieComedyDocumentary

Saturday Night Live has been reflecting and influencing life in the United States for forty years. LIVE FROM NEW YORK! goes deep inside this television phenomenon exploring the laughter that pulses through American politics, tragedy, and pop culture.

Mayor

MovieDocumentary

David Osit’s thought-provoking documentary is a real-life political saga following Musa Hadid, the Christian mayor of Ramallah, during his second term in office.

Filmography

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Primetime

Primetime · 2026

MovieDramaThriller

In 2006, To Catch a Predator host Chris Hansen sets out to make television history. When a high stakes operation goes fatally wrong, his veneered dream of fame curdles into a nightmare of performative justice.

Thanks

Procession

Procession · 2021

MovieDocumentary

Six men who were sexually abused by Catholic clergy as boys become a makeshift family and find empowerment by creating films inspired by their trauma.

Editorial Consultant

Predators

Predators · 2025

MovieDocumentaryCrime

In the mid-aughts, Dateline NBC's To Catch a Predator drew millions of weekly viewers to watch sting operations: men planning to meet minors for sex would instead be confronted by polished host Chris Hansen, then by the police — all on hidden camera.

Director

The Antisocial Network: Memes to Mayhem

The Antisocial Network: Memes to Mayhem · 2024

The Antisocial Network: Memes to Mayhem

MovieDocumentary

From Rickrolling to viral conspiracy theories, explore how an anonymous website evolved into a hub for real-world chaos in this documentary.

Editor

In Transit

In Transit · 2015

MovieDocumentary

The Empire Builder is America’s busiest long-distance train route, running from Chicago to Seattle. Throughout these corridors sit runaways, adventurers, and loners – a myriad of passengers waiting to see what their journey holds. A touching and honest observation, co-directed by the iconic Albert Maysles, In Transit breathes life into the long commute, and contemplates the unknowns that lie at our final destination.

Assistant Editor

Collective: Unconscious

Collective: Unconscious · 2016

Collective: Unconscious

MovieDramaMystery

A man and his grandmother hide out from an ominous broadcast. The Grim Reaper hosts a TV show. The formerly incarcerated recount and reinterpret their first days of freedom. A suburban mom's life is upturned by the beast growing inside of her. And a high school gym teacher runs drills from inside a volcano. What happens when five of independent film's most adventurous filmmakers join together to literally adapt each other’s dreams for the screen?

Music

Live from New York!

Live from New York! · 2015

Live from New York!

MovieComedyDocumentary

Saturday Night Live has been reflecting and influencing life in the United States for forty years. LIVE FROM NEW YORK! goes deep inside this television phenomenon exploring the laughter that pulses through American politics, tragedy, and pop culture.

Editor

Mayor

MovieDocumentary

David Osit’s thought-provoking documentary is a real-life political saga following Musa Hadid, the Christian mayor of Ramallah, during his second term in office.

Producer

Precious Thing

Precious Thing · 2026

A daughter discusses the overlapping issues with her current life and her mother's previous and current experiences through phone calls over the course of many months while away at college. Life events cause conversations to get more serious and pressing, beginning to affect both women's lives as they cling to each other for comfort and consistency.

Story Consultant

Thank You for Playing

Thank You for Playing · 2015

Thank You for Playing

MovieDocumentary

For the past two years, Ryan and Amy Green have been working on That Dragon, Cancer, a videogame about their son Joel's fight against that disease. Following the family through the creation of the game and the day-to-day realities of Joel’s treatment, David Osit and Malika Zouhali-Worrall create a moving testament to the joy and heartbreak of raising a terminally ill child.

Director

Games You Can't Win

Games You Can't Win · 2016

Games You Can't Win

MovieDocumentary

Games You Can’t Win explores “empathy” gaming, a new video game movement in which developers are sharing some of their most intimate or traumatic personal experiences through artful, documentary-style video games. Using a combination of intimate verité footage and video capture from the games, the short film tells the stories of three developer and the personal experiences that inspired their game.

Director

Libre

MovieDocumentary

For detained immigrants who can’t pay their bond, for-profit companies like Libre by Nexus offer a path to reunite with their families. But for many, the reality is much more complicated. “Libre” sheds light on one of many hidden costs of reunification for immigrant families.

Consulting Editor

Handle with Extreme Care

Handle with Extreme Care · 2023

Handle with Extreme Care

MovieDocumentary

A frank and often morbidly funny account of daily life for a New York mortuary struggling to provide a resting place for the dead at the height of the Covid crisis.

Co-Editor

Adversary

Adversary · 2018

MovieDocumentary

Carl Paladino is a Trump-supporting real estate magnate with a history of making racist remarks. In 2016, he faced opposition for re-election to the Buffalo School Board in the form of 18-year-old Austin Harig.

Editor