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Predators

Director

David Osit

Producers

Jamie Gonçalves, Kellen Quinn

Editor

David Osit

Consulting Editor

Co-Editor

Assistant Editor

Cinematographer

David Osit

Additional Cinematography

Music

Tim Hecker

Sound

Narration

Contact

MTV Documentary Films

kelly.andersen@paramount.com

A cultural sensation from its inception in the early 2000s, Dateline NBC’s candid-camera investigative series “To Catch a Predator” ensnared sex offenders and lured them to a film set, where they would be interviewed and arrested while cameras rolled. The show was a hit and transformed its host, Chris Hansen, into a moral crusader and TV star, while spawning a worldwide industry of imitators and vigilantes.

But why did we watch so voraciously — and why do we continue to devour its web-based, clickbait-driven offshoots? Looking back on the program and the franchises it spawned, filmmaker David Osit turns his camera on journalists, actors, law enforcers, academics, and ultimately himself to trace America’s obsession with watching people at their lowest.

PREDATORS delves into the murk of human nature to observe hunter, predator, subject, and spectator alike, all ensnared in a complicated web of entertainment as far as the eye can see.

Courtesy of MTV DOCUMENTARY FILMS

Director, Predators

David Osit (Director, Producer, Editor, Cinematographer) is an Emmy and Peabody Award-winning director, editor and composer. His most recent film Mayor won a Peabody and Emmy Award, was a New York Times Critics’ Pick, and holds a 100% Certified Fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes. David directed, produced, edited, filmed, and composed the feature documentary Thank You For Playing, which was broadcast on POV in 2016, and was nominated for three Emmy awards, winning for Outstanding Arts & Culture Documentary. He also edited and produced Off Frame, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and Berlinale in 2016, and he edited, produced, and composed No Man’s Land, which premiered at the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival and broadcast on PBS Independent Lens in 2018. David’s feature directorial debut, Building Babel, premiered at True/False in 2012 and was broadcast as the series premiere of PBS’s America Reframed in 2013. His work as an editor and consulting editor includes Procession (Netflix), Crime + Punishment (Hulu), and The Vow (HBO). He holds a BA in Middle Eastern and North African Studies from the University of Michigan as a Wallenberg Fellow and studied Refugee Law at the American University in Cairo.