DIRTY PREDATORS (2025)

Released in 2025 and directed by David Osit, this documentary examines the rise, cultural impact, and eventual cancellation of the NBC reality series To Catch a Predator, which ran from 2004 to 2007 and featured sting operations to confront and arrest adults attempting to meet minors for sexual encounters. Using unaired footage, interviews with former decoys, law enforcement, and archival clips, it explores the production process, ethical dilemmas surrounding public humiliation and entertainment value in law enforcement collaborations, the psychological effects on participants, and the proliferation of similar vigilante content on digital platforms, questioning the boundaries between justice, spectacle, and media exploitation.