David Osit

David Osit (born May 6, 1987) is an American filmmaker best known as one of the directors, with Malika Zouhali-Worrall, of the 2015 documentary Thank You for Playing.[1][2][3] Osit and Zouhali-Worrall also directed "Games You Can't Win," a short film inspired by the feature for The New York Times Op-Docs.[4] Both the feature and short were inspired by the art house video game That Dragon, Cancer. In 2017, Thank You For Playing won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Arts and Culture Documentary.[5]

David Osit
David Osit, photographed in 2017.
Born (1987-05-06) May 6, 1987
NationalityAmerican
OccupationDocumentary filmmaker, editor, composer
Known forThank You For Playing, Mayor

His third documentary, Mayor, follows Musa Hadid, the mayor of Ramallah, the de facto capital of Palestine. The film premiered at the True/False Film Festival in 2020, one of the last film festivals to proceed as scheduled in the first half of 2020 due to the Coronavirus pandemic.[6] It was theatrically released on December 2, 2020 to critical praise. The film is a New York Times "Critic's Pick"[7] and an Indiewire "Critic's Pick."[8]

Osit has edited and composed for numerous documentary films, including Live From New York!,[9] which was the opening night film of the 2015 Tribeca Film Festival.[10]

His first documentary film, Building Babel, followed real estate developer Sharif El-Gamal during the 2010 Ground Zero Mosque controversy. The film was broadcast on PBS in 2013.[11]

Osit was raised in the suburbs of New York City in Tuckahoe (village), New York, where he graduated from Tuckahoe High School in 2005.[12] Osit studied Middle Eastern and North African Studies at the University of Michigan where he was a Wallenberg Fellow,[13] and studied Refugee Law at the American University in Cairo.

Filmography

Feature films
YearFilmDirectorProducerEditorCinematographerComposerOtherNotes
2012 Building Babel Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
2015 Live from New York! No No Yes No No
2015 Thank You For Playing Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
2017 No Man's Land No Yes Yes No Yes
2020 Mayor Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes

References
  1. "The Filmmakers". Thank You For Playing. Retrieved 2017-04-15.
  2. POV. "Thank You For Playing | POV | PBS". POV | American Documentary Inc. Retrieved 2017-04-15.
  3. http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/blog/independent-lens-wins-four-emmys-news-documentary-emmy-awards-2017/
  4. Osit, David; Zouhali-worrall, Malika (2016-03-17). "Games You Can't Win". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2017-04-15.
  5. https://twitter.com/newsemmys/status/916107897322528774
  6. https://filmmakermagazine.com/109321-true-false-film-fest-2020-the-value-of-the-theatrical-experience-coronavirus-remix/
  7. Kenigsberg, Ben (2020-12-02). "'Mayor' Review: Leading a City With the World Watching". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-12-02.
  8. Kohn, Eric (2020-03-06). "'Mayor' Review: The Best New Film About Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Is a Dark Comedy About Ramallah's Mayor". IndieWire. Retrieved 2020-12-02.
  9. Armisen, Fred; Baldwin, Alec; Beatts, Anne; Bergen, Candice (2015-06-12), Live from New York!, retrieved 2017-04-15
  10. "Tribeca". Tribeca. Retrieved 2017-04-15.
  11. "Building Babel | ITVS". itvs.org. Retrieved 2017-04-15.
  12. "Police union announces scholarship winners". The Bronxville Review Press and Reporter. Gannett Company. 9 June 2005. Retrieved 17 May 2017.
  13. "David Osit – Wallenberg Legacy, University of Michigan". wallenberg.umich.edu. Retrieved 2017-04-15.
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