David Osit

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. 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.

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 (village), 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.