DAVID OSIT is a documentary film director, editor, and composer, and a three-time Emmy winner and Peabody Award recipient. He directed 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 theatrically across the US and UK in fall 2025, with its world premiere on Paramount+ in December 2025. His film MAYOR (2020) opened in over 80 US theaters, was a New York Times Critics' Pick, screened at hundreds of film festivals worldwide, aired on POV, and won an Emmy for Outstanding Politics and Government Documentary. His film THANK YOU FOR PLAYING (2015) premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival, also aired on POV, and was nominated for three Emmys, winning for Outstanding Arts and Culture Documentary. His first film BUILDING BABEL (2012) premiered at True/False 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 the nonfiction series THE VOW (HBO 2020), HOSTAGES (Emmy winner for Outstanding Historical Documentary, IDA Award nominee for Best Multi-Part Documentary, HBO 2022), THE ANTISOCIAL NETWORK (Netflix 2024), and A CURE FOR FEAR (IDA Award nominee for Best Series).

His work as an editing consultant 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 University of Michigan's Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies and studied refugee law at the American University in Cairo. He received an 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.