David Osit Movies, TV Shows, and Filmography
David Osit
Directing
Biography
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 December 2025. His film MAYOR (2020) was released in over 80 cinemas across the US, was a New York Times Critic’s Pick, played at hundreds of film festivals worldwide, broadcast on POV, and won an Emmy for Outstanding Political + Government Documentary. His film THANK YOU FOR PLAYING (2015) premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival, also broadcast on POV, and was nominated for three Emmys, winning for Outstanding Arts + Culture Documentary. His first film, BUILDING BABEL (2012), premiered at the True/False Film Festival and aired on PBS America Reframed. Osit’s work as an editor includes feature films such as OFF FRAME (Toronto/Berlinale 2016), NO MAN'S LAND (Tribeca 2017), LIVE FROM NEW YORK (Tribeca Opening Night 2015) as well as non-fiction television series THE VOW (HBO 2020), HOSTAGES (Emmy Winner, Outstanding Historical Documentary, IDA Best Multi-Part Documentary Award Nominee, HBO 2022), THE ANTISOCIAL NETWORK (Netflix 2024) and A CURE FOR FEAR (IDA Best Series Award Nominee). His work as a consulting editor includes PROCESSION (Netflix), CRIME + PUNISHMENT (Hulu), and UNITED SKATES (HBO). Osit is an alumnus of the Berlinale Talent Campus and the Sundance Nonfiction Director’s Residency. He graduated from the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies at the University of Michigan, and studied Refugee Law at the American University in Cairo. He received his MFA in Social Documentary Film from the School of Visual Arts, and has lectured at the School of Visual Arts and UnionDocs in New York.
Filmography Movies
Acting
Predators
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.
Mayor
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.
Production
Mayor
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.
Mayor
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.
Mayor
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.
Mayor
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.
Games You Can't Win
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.
Live from New York!
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.
Thank You for Playing
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.
Handle with Extreme Care
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.
The Antisocial Network: Memes to Mayhem
From Rickrolling to viral conspiracy theories, explore how an anonymous website evolved into a hub for real-world chaos in this documentary.
Procession
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.
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