David Osit


David Osit is an American filmmaker best known as one of the directors, with Malika Zouhali-Worrall, of the 2015 documentary Thank You for Playing. 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. 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.
Osit has edited and composed for numerous documentary films, including Live From New York!, which was the opening night film of the 2015 Tribeca Film Festival.
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.
Osit was raised in the suburbs of New York City in Tuckahoe, New York, where he graduated from Tuckahoe High School in 2005. Osit studied Middle Eastern and North African Studies at the University of Michigan where he was a Wallenberg Fellow, and studied Refugee Law at the American University in Cairo.

Filmography

Feature films