Director/Producer/Cinematographer

David Osit

David Osit is an Emmy and Peabody Award-winning director, editor, and composer. His most recent film MAYOR won a Peabody and Emmy Award, was a New York Times Critics’ Pick and holds a 100% Certified Fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes. David directed, produced, edited, filmed, and composed THANK YOU FOR PLAYING, which was broadcast on POV in 2016 and was nominated for three Emmy awards, winning for Outstanding Arts & Culture Documentary. He also edited and produced OFF FRAME, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and Berlinale in 2016, and he edited, produced and composed NO MAN’S LAND, which premiered at the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival and broadcast on PBS Independent Lens in 2018. David’s feature directorial debut, BUILDING BABEL, premiered at True/False in 2012 and was broadcast as the series premiere of PBS’s America Reframed in 2013. His work as an editor and consulting editor includes PROCESSION (Netflix), CRIME + PUNISHMENT (Hulu), and THE VOW (HBO). He holds a BA in Middle Eastern and North African Studies from the University of Michigan as a Wallenberg Fellow, studied Refugee Law at the American University in Cairo, and received his MFA in Documentary Film from the School of Visual Arts in New York.