Aaron Saidman (born December 11, 1974) is an American creator-developer, documentary filmmaker and

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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'', ''

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,'' '' Declassified: Untold Stories of American Spies'', ''

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,'' ''

The Seven Five ''The Seven Five'', also known as ''Seven Five Precinct'', is a 2014 documentary directed by Tiller Russell, and produced by Eli Holzman, Aaron Saidman, and Sheldon Yellen. The film looks at police corruption in the 75th precinct of the New York ...

,'' ''

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'' and '' Night Stalker: The Hunt For a Serial Killer''. Saidman is the President and Co-Founder of

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, which he created in 2016 with longtime producing partner

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. In 2017,

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named Saidman one of the "Top 10 Power Players" in reality television. Later that year, Saidman won a

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for ''Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath'', in the category of Outstanding Informational Series or Special, as well as a

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, and a

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for the first and second seasons of the series. Saidman and Holzman developed the high-profile

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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. In 2018, Saidman was named President of Industrial Media, following

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’s acquisition of

. Saidman is a member of the

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of the International Documentary Association (IDA). In 2019, Saidman and Anna Chai co-directed the Netflix documentary series ''

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'', which Saidman executive produced with

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, and her mother Mandy Teefey, Sean O’Grady and Anna Chai. The series follows eight undocumented immigrants living in the United States, and was nominated for a

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in the category of "Outstanding Editing: Documentary" in 2020. In 2019, ''Living Undocumented'' was nominated for an

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for "Best Episodic Series." In 2020, Saidman was one of the executive producers for the

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unscripted television series ''

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''. That same year, he produced the critically acclaimed documentary ''

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'', about socialite

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and directed by Alexandra Dean. 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."

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