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]