Saim Sadiq is a Pakistani filmmaker whose film JOYLAND is the first Pakistani feature to ever play at the Cannes Film Festival. His short film DARLING was the first Pakistani film to premiere at the 76th Venice Film Festival where it won the Orrizonti Prize for Best Short Film. DARLING was also an official selection at the Toronto International Film Festival 2019, won a Special Jury Mention award at South by Southwest 2020, and was acquired for distribution by Focus Features. His previous short film NICE TALKING TO YOU was an official selection at South by Southwest 2019, Palm Springs International Shortsfest 2019, made the BAFTA Shortlist for Best Student Film and won Vimeo’s Best Director award at Columbia University Film Festival 2018 along with the Kodak Student Scholarship Gold Award. 

Sadiq most recently wrote a pilot for MakeReady with Brad Weston attached to produce and Scott Silver attached to showrun and is writing the film adaptation of "Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet’’, a New York Times best-selling novel to be DARLING by Bing Liu, an Oscar nominated director.