Primetime

It’s 2006 and despite its unconventional methods, To Catch a Predator is a US TV hit. When executives decide to move the show to a primetime slot, Hansen and his production team must up the ante to keep their audience, no matter the cost.

The fiction feature debut from documentary filmmaker Lance Oppenheim revisits the media culture of the early noughties, before the news landscape fractured, and when a primetime slot felt like a matter of life or death. For some, it was.

Diving into the shadowy ethical intersection of criminality and reality TV, Primetime explores the moral sacrifices made in the name of entertainment, and America (and the world's) obsession with society's dark corners.

Oppenheim is one half of the directing duo of the highly anticipated doc You Can See Everything, on the notorious Silicon Valley founder Elizabeth Holmes.