Directed by award-winning filmmaker David Osit, the documentary Predators takes a deep dive into Dateline’s To Catch a Predator, pulling back the curtain on the show’s complicated legacy.
Predators made its world premiere at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival and internationally at CPH:DOX. After opening in US theaters beginning September 19th, it will be released theatrically in the UK on November 14th, and on Paramount+ on December 8th, 2025
Dateline’s To Catch a Predator was a popular television show designed to hunt down child predators and lure them to a film set, where they would be interviewed and eventually arrested. Predators is a thought-provoking exploration of the fascinating rise and staggering fall of the show, and the true-crime genre it helped create.
Predators is directed, produced, edited and filmed by David Osit, produced by Jamie Gonçalves and Kellen Quinn, edited by Nicolás Nørgaard Staffolani. in association with Rosewater Pictures.
Osit’s previous film Mayor won a Peabody and Emmy Award, Thank You for Playing was nominated for three Emmy awards, winning for Outstanding Arts & Culture Documentary. His feature directorial debut, Building Babel, premiered at True/False in 2012 and was featured as the series premiere of PBS’s America Reframed in 2013.
Watch the official trailer for Predators above.
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