MTV Documentary Films has picked up world rights to David Osit’s Sundance doc Predators. 

The film digs into Dateline’s popular and controversial series To Catch a Predator. MTV will release the film theatrically this fall and intends to campaign for awards before launching on Paramount+ with Showtime. 

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 had its world premiere in the U.S. Documentary Competition at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival. It will debut internationally at CPH: DOX in Copenhagen before heading on the festival circuit. 

“I’m thrilled to work with MTV Documentary Films and am humbled to have Predators included in their excellent slate of award-winning, incisive, and thoughtful nonfiction programming,” Osit said in a statement. “I’m so glad that MTV Documentary Films is also committed to a theatrical release for this film, as I created Predators with the intent of imparting an unexpectedly moving and shocking cinematic experience to audiences. I’m beyond excited that we’ll be able to share this film around the world.”

Osit is an Emmy and Peabody award-winning director, editor, and composer. His previous film Mayor won a Peabody and Emmy Award. His other credits include the feature documentary Thank You For Playing, which was broadcast on POV in 2016 and 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. 

Cinetic Media negotiated the deal on behalf of the filmmakers with Lance McPherson on behalf of MTV Documentary Films.

Predators is directed, produced, edited, and filmed by Osit. Producers are Jamie Gonçalves and Kellen Quinn. Nicolás Nørgaard Staffolani was the editor. Executive Producers are Jennifer Ollman and Co-Executive Produced by Arthur Bradford and Chad Beck.