Pod Of Seals is designed to shave years off your journey in the entertainment industry. Host Hammad Zaidi is the founder of the Lonely Seal Company Group, a family of social-cause and media-related companies committed to making the world a more magical place. Hammad's companies include, Lonely Seal Releasing, an international film and television distribution, sales and production company, The Lonely Seal International Film, Screenplay and Music Festival, cited as a FilmFreeway "Top 100 Best Reviewed Festival," and The Lonely Seal Traveling Film Festival, which launches in 2020.
Hammad Zaidi has been a jury member, panelist, world cinema screener, filmmaker advisor, program curator and or an advisory board member at several film festivals worldwide. These include, but are not limited to, Sundance, SXSW, Slamdance and Flickerfest in Sydney.
Zaidi is an award-winning writer and producer, a member of the Producers Guild of America, the Writers Guild of America, and he is a certified cinema and television buyer at the world's top film sales markets. Hammad is a graduate of the UCLA graduate school of film.