Synopsis
Director: David Osit
Producers: Jamie Gonçalves, Kellen Quinn, David Osit
U.S., 96 min
A captivating and provocative exploration of America’s obsession with true crime and vigilante justice, Predators explores the rise and fall of To Catch a Predator. Each episode of the popular Dateline NBC series was designed to hunt down child predators by luring adult men to a house with a young decoy. There, TV host Chris Hansen would eventually emerge from the shadows and confront the men in front of the cameras before they would eventually be turned over to the police. Award-winning filmmaker David Osit “stealthily lures viewers” (The Hollywood Reporter) into the controversial world of the show, exposing its murky ethics and shifting our expectations with shocking revelations—not just about the show, Mr. Hansen, and his copy-cats, but the very documentary we’re watching. “Raw and riveting” (IndieWire), “brilliant” (Variety) and “absolutely fascinating” (Rolling Stone), this “stunning film [is] an act of courage” (RogerEbert.com).
