David Osit

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.