David Osit
| David Osit | |
|---|---|
| Born | May 6, 1987 |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Documentary filmmaker, editor, composer |
| Known for | Thank You For Playing |
David Osit (born May 6, 1987) is a documentary filmmaker best known as one of the directors, with Malika Zouhali-Worrall, of the 2015 feature documentary Thank You for Playing.[1][2] 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.[3] Both the feature and short were inspired by the art house video game That Dragon, Cancer.
Osit has edited and composed for numerous documentary films, including Live From New York!,[4] which was the opening night film of the 2015 Tribeca Film Festival.[5]
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.[6]
Osit was raised in the suburbs of New York City in Tuckahoe (village), New York, where he graduated from Tuckahoe High School in 2005.[7] Osit studied Middle Eastern and North African Studies at the University of Michigan where he was a Wallenberg Fellow,[8] and studied Refugee Law at the American University in Cairo.
References
- ↑ "The Filmmakers". Thank You For Playing. Retrieved 2017-04-15.
- ↑ POV. "Thank You For Playing | POV | PBS". POV | American Documentary Inc. Retrieved 2017-04-15.
- ↑ Osit, David; Zouhali-worrall, Malika (2016-03-17). "Games You Can’t Win". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2017-04-15.
- ↑ Armisen, Fred; Baldwin, Alec; Beatts, Anne; Bergen, Candice (2015-06-12), Live from New York!, retrieved 2017-04-15
- ↑ "Tribeca". Tribeca. Retrieved 2017-04-15.
- ↑ "Building Babel | ITVS". itvs.org. Retrieved 2017-04-15.
- ↑ "Police union announces scholarship winners". The Bronxville Review Press and Reporter. Gannett Company. 9 June 2005. Retrieved 17 May 2017.
- ↑ "David Osit – Wallenberg Legacy, University of Michigan". wallenberg.umich.edu. Retrieved 2017-04-15.