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The Python Hunt

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In an attempt to save the threatened ecosystem, the Florida government hosts an annual competition to remove invasive pythons from the Everglades. For ten grueling nights, python-mania overtakes the 'glades as an eclectic group of amateur hunters contends with unforgiving terrain, aggressive nocturnal creatures and their own desires and demons that push them into the swamp, searching for slithering glory.
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Alissa Wilkinson New York Times 23h
Suddenly the hunt takes on a strange extra meaning. It’s the sort of moment that would feel ham-fisted in a fiction film script, but in a nonfiction film, it’s gold. Sometimes, reality beats anything you could imagine. Go to Full Review Charles Lyons-Burt Slant Magazine 5d
2.5/4
The at times overbearing aesthetic touch isn’t enough to diminish the film’s saliency. Go to Full Review Daniel Fienberg The Hollywood Reporter 03/19/2025
The storylines in The Python Hunt prove a little bit too squirmy and erratic for the documentary to come into a focus in a wholly satisfying way. But it’s still a wild and generally empathetic journey into the swamp of the American soul. Go to Full Review Todd Jorgenson Cinemalogue 1d
Smartly embracing the absurdity of its titular competition rather than fixating on winners and losers, this documentary is compelling regardless of your preference for buying into its slithering sincerity. Go to Full Review Dan Bayer Next Best Picture 1d
7/10
It is pretty thrilling, to be sure, but much like how our intrepid hunters learn that the hunt is much more driving around in the dark than stalking and killing snakes, it’s not what you expect. Go to Full Review Tina Kakadelis Beyond the Cinerama Dome 1d
The Python Hunt is thrilling and weird, but what remains is a reminder of how easily we humans can carelessly and devastatingly alter the world around us. Go to Full Review Read all reviews

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Stephen C @bob25009 1d Real footage in 1 hour and 31 minutes. See more Read all reviews
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Xander Robin

Director

Lance Oppenheim

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Lauren Cioffi

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Melissa Oppenheim

Producer

Xander Robin

Producer

Gillian Brown

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Synopsis In an attempt to save the threatened ecosystem, the Florida government hosts an annual competition to remove invasive pythons from the Everglades. For ten grueling nights, python-mania overtakes the 'glades as an eclectic group of amateur hunters contends with unforgiving terrain, aggressive nocturnal creatures and their own desires and demons that push them into the swamp, searching for slithering glory.
Director
Xander Robin
Producer
Lance Oppenheim, Lauren Cioffi, Melissa Oppenheim, Xander Robin
Distributor
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Production Co
Artist's Equity
Genre
Documentary
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
May 8, 2026, Limited
Runtime
1h 31m