/Film
PREDATORS
Sep 26 - Oct 10, 2025
Q&A with filmmaker on September 27 after screening.
About
Predators is a 2025 documentary film produced and directed by David Osit. It follows the rise and fall of the television program To Catch a Predator, which aired on NBC from 2004 to 2007.
SF/Arts Curator Insight
David Osit’s troubling doc surveys the ethical quandaries posed by the hit TV show, "To Catch a Predator,” whose snagging of sexual predators may have been laudable, but its methods questionable. The popular program ended over 17 years ago, inviting a retrospective view of the entrapment of perpetrators and the queasy relationship between “ambush” gotcha journalism and law enforcement through clips and interviews with “decoys” and the self-righteous host Chris Hansen.
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