- Highlights
by Riccardo Triolo
From Murdoch to Musk: three festival titles unpack media power and the erosion of truth
Making his fiction debut, documentary filmmaker Lance Oppenheim draws on a controversial chapter in American television history, exploring the grey zone between investigative journalism, entertainment, and justice. In 2006, Chris Hansen (Robert Pattinson), host of “To Catch a Predator”, begins hunting potential sexual predators using fake teenage profiles. Lured to a house, the men are confronted on camera by the journalist before police move in.
An American documentary filmmaker and director Lance Oppenheim (Fort Lauderdale, 1996) explores communities and microcosms of contemporary America, with an approach poised between documentary observation and cinematic construction. Following Some Kind of Heaven (2020), Spermworld (2024), and Ren Faire (2024), he enters the Venice Competition with Primetime, his first fiction film.
