| Director: | Lance Oppenheim |
|---|---|
| Production: | A24, Range Media Partners, Icki Aneo Arlo, Square Peg Films |
| Running Time: | 110’ |
| Language: | English |
| Country: | USA |
| Main Cast: | Robert Pattinson, Merritt Wever, Skyler Gisondo, Phoebe Bridgers |
| Screenplay: | Ajon Singh |
| Cinematographer: | David Bolen |
| Editor: | Daniel Garber |
| Production Designer: | Alex Digerlando |
| Costume Designer: | Alex Bovaird |
| Music: | Ari Balouzian |
Cinema
Primetime
Venezia 83 Competition
Synopsis
In 2006, To Catch a Predator host Chris Hansen sets out to make television history.
Director’s Statement
I grew up watching network and reality TV in the early 2000s, and wanted to play with its visual language in Primetime. Most reality TV is salacious by design, but few shows have kept their hold on the culture at large, or on my own imagination, the way Dateline’s To Catch a Predator has in the twenty years since it aired. Its host, Chris Hansen, pioneered a spectacle of punishment – the moment moral outrage became must-see TV.
His show always fascinates me, in part because of the way it collapses fiction and reality: the predators are acting on real, horrific impulses, but they are led into a highly constructed environment where they interact with actors and a TV host.
With Primetime, I set out to make an institutional portrait of To Catch a Predator at the height of its success. How did the show change as it grew more popular? What did working on it do to the people inside it – the performers, the producers? I wanted to trace the disparate ambitions of people who existed inside this apparatus – a journalistic crusader, a mercenary TV producer and a wide-eyed Hollywood dreamer – converging into a moment of crisis. And I liked the idea of revisiting the media culture of the early 2000s, before the news landscape fractured, when a “primetime” slot felt like a matter of life or death. For some, it was.
Production /Distribution
PRODUCTION 1:
A24
1245 Broadway
10001 New York, United States of America
Tel: +1 (646) 568-6015
Web: https://a24films.com/
PRODUCTION 2:
Range Media Partners
2425 Michigan Ave
90404 Santa Monica, United States of America
Tel: +1 (424) 610-9300
PRODUCTION 3:
Icki Eneo Arlo
United States of America
E-mail: icki@ickieneoarlo.com
PRODUCTION 4:
Square Peg
16030 Ventura Blvd Suite 240, Encino, CA, 91436
United States of America
E-mail: jared@squarepeg.film
WORLD SALES:
A24 International
1245 Broadway
10001 New York, United States of America
Tel: +1 (646) 568-6015
ITALIAN DISTRIBUTION:
I Wonder Pictures
Via della Zecca, 2
40121 Bologna, Italy
E-mail: distribution@iwonderpictures.it
Web: http://iwonderpictures.com/
Social Media: @iwonderpictures – Instagram
PRESS OFFICE: Organic Publicity
Primetime@organic-publicity.com
ITALIAN PRESS OFFICE:
Giulia Martinez
Tel: +39 335 7189949
E-mail: giuliamartinezoffice@gmail.com
Cristina Partenza
Tel: +39 3316795865
E-mail: cristina.partenza@gmail.com
