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Aaron Saidman
American executive producer (born 1974) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Aaron Saidman (born December 11, 1974) is an American creator-developer, documentary filmmaker and television producer known for creating or serving as an executive producer on a number of non-fiction television series and documentary feature films, including Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath, Curse of Von Dutch, Mind Field, Declassified: Untold Stories of American Spies, The Pitch, The Seven Five, Free Meek and Night Stalker: The Hunt for a Serial Killer.[1][2][3][4][5] Saidman is the President and co-founder of The Intellectual Property Corporation, which he created in 2016 with longtime producing partner Eli Holzman.[6]
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In 2017, The Hollywood Reporter named Saidman one of the "Top 10 Power Players" in reality television.[7] Later that year, Saidman won a Primetime Emmy Award for Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath, in the category of Outstanding Informational Series or Special,[8][9] as well as a TCA Award for Outstanding Achievement in Reality Programming,[10] and a Producers Guild of America Award for Best Non-Fiction Television for the first and second seasons of the series.[11] Saidman and Holzman developed the high-profile Scientology series with actress Leah Remini after Saidman heard that Remini and her agents were interested in producing a documentary about her experience in the Church of Scientology.[12] Saidman also executive produced the documentary series Active Shooter: America Under Fire, which premiered on Showtime in 2017.[13]
In 2018, Saidman was named President of Industrial Media, following CORE Media Group's acquisition of The Intellectual Property Corporation.[14][15] Saidman is a member of the board of directors of the International Documentary Association (IDA) from 2018 to 2022[16]
In 2019, Saidman and Anna Chai co-directed the Netflix documentary series Living Undocumented, which Saidman executive produced with Eli Holzman, Selena Gomez, and her mother Mandy Teefey, Sean O'Grady and Anna Chai.[17] The series follows eight undocumented immigrants living in the United States, and was nominated for a News and Documentary Emmy Award in the category of "Outstanding Editing: Documentary" in 2020.[18][19] In 2019, Living Undocumented was nominated for an IDA Award for "Best Episodic Series."[20]
In 2020, Saidman was one of the executive producers for the Netflix unscripted television series Indian Matchmaking.[21] That same year, he produced the critically acclaimed documentary This Is Paris, about socialite Paris Hilton and directed by Alexandra Dean.[22] Saidman approached Hilton in 2018 after reading an article about her and the cultural trends she had started, wittingly and unwittingly, and grew curious about who she was as a person. After meeting, Saidman and Hilton decided to make a documentary that was "truly authentic" and could "reveal the deeper essence of who Paris really is—in a way that the public hadn't really seen before, but also in a way that Paris herself hadn't really come to terms with and hadn't explored herself."[23]This Is Paris was chosen as an official selection at the 2020 Tribeca Film Festival.[24] Saidman also served as an executive producer for the HBO documentary series We're Here, which was released in 2020[25] and he eventually won a Peabody Award for the show in 2023.[26][27] Saidman also created and produced the cooking series Selena + Chef, his second collaboration with Selena Gomez, which was released on August 13, 2020.[28][29][30]
In 2021, it was announced that Saidman would produce a documentary series about the fashion brand Von Dutch for Hulu.[31] Saidman also served as an executive producer for the true crime docuseries Night Stalker: The Hunt for a Serial Killer, which was released in 2021.[32]
After Sony Pictures Television acquired Industrial Media in 2022, the company named Saidman Co-President of Nonfiction Entertainment, a new division focused on nonfiction content.[33][34] Saidman served as executive producer for the A&E documentary series Secrets of Playboy, which was released in 2022.[35][36]
Saidman executive produced the film The Disappearance of Shere Hite, a documentary about the life of sex researcher Shere Hite, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2023.[37] In March 2023, Saidman was a guest on Emmy-winning producer Jimmy Fox's podcast titled Unscripted and Unprepared.[38]
Saidman executive produced the documentary series Deadlocked: How America Shaped the Supreme Court, for which he was nominated for a Film Independent Spirit Award for Best New Non-Scripted or Documentary Series.[39]
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