MTV Documentary Films Acquires Sundance Doc ‘Predators’

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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.