Primetime (2026)
Director: Lance Oppenheim Run Time: 110 min. Rating: R Release Year: 2026
Starring: Matthew Maher, Merritt Wever, Phoebe Bridgers, Robert Pattinson, Skyler Gisondo
Country: United States
Language: English
About the film:
In 2006, To Catch a Predator host Chris Hansen sets out to make television history.
About the filmmaker:
Lance Oppenheim is an acclaimed documentary filmmaker whose debut narrative feature film Primetime (2026) premiered in the main competition of the 83rd Venice International Film Festival.
Oppenheim began crafting critically acclaimed short films as a high school student in Fort Lauderdale. His short documentary Quicksand featured his grandfather, who suffered from Alzheimer’s, and was selected by PBS to air as part of their “Local, USA” series in 2013. While studying Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard, Oppenheim became the youngest contributor to The New York Times Op-Docs with Long Term Parking, No Jail Time: The Movie, and The Happiest Guy in the World, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2018. He was featured as one of Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film in 2019, and his films have been featured at the Museum of Modern Art, the Smithsonian, and film festivals around the world. He became the first Sundance Ignite Fellow to premiere a feature at the Sundance Film Festival with Some Kind of Heaven (2021). The film was produced by Darren Aronofsky and The New York Times as one of their first feature-length productions.
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