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About Us

The Lonely Seal Film, Screenplay, and Music Festival quickly became one of the world’s best festivals, launching into FilmFreeway’s “Top 100 Best Reviewed Festivals.


We cherish inclusiveness, independent voices, and stories aching to be told.


We also LOVE our interns, and our primary goal is to infuse them with so much knowledge that they are well-prepared to become film/entertainment industry professionals upon completion.

Interns can take our upcoming series of online courses free of charge, which is a $6,000 value.

Many of our interns keep in touch with us far after their internship, and many extend this internship to multiple semesters. We still know our interns from the late 1990s. One of our interns from 2015 is now producing a project with us, another from 2019 is a festival director at this festival, and we have endorsed many others by writing letters of recommendation for graduate school and their first jobs.

Our Festival
Our roots are growing more robust in 2024, as in addition to the October 10-13 Arlington, MA (Boston) dates, we produce events in New York, Southern California, Atlanta, and Paris, France.

We program fantastic features, shorts, documentaries, music-related and International content, LBGTQIA, and films on disabilities. We also champion women and Indigenous filmmakers and love great dramas, horrors, comedies, animation, and cause-based cinema. 

Screenwriters, Playwrights, and Composers are also parts of our family, so if you have a story "aching to be told," we want to experience it. 

Our events include screenings, panel discussions, live music, stage readings, screenwriting seminars, mixers, workshops, and career strategy sessions.

We are a multiple-time "Top 100 Best Reviewed Festival, with 146 Fiive-Star Reviews, planting us in the top 1% of festivals with the most Five-Star Reviews worldwide. 

Our Sister Companies
Aside from our festival, we own Lonely Seal Releasing, and are starting Lonely Seal Streaming in 2024.
We also own Hourglass24.com, a new entertainment-project-centric crowdfunding platform that laser-targets 24-hour campaigns and will offer classes, retreats, and consulting for filmmakers. Interns will have the opportunity to engage with our other companies, should they wish to learn those aspects of the entertainment industry.


Film Festival Screener & Screenplay Reader


The Internship:

10-15 hours per week, screening films, reading screenplays, and reviewing them. Access will be online, nia FilmFreeway, and interns will receive an IMDb credit.


One hour per week Zoom meeting with all interns nationwide. 30 minutes of the Zoom will be dedicated to us helping the interns strategize their careers.


Qualifications 

We're looking for motivated self-starters who are out-of-the-box thinkers. We want people curious to learn about the inner workings of running a film festival and those who enjoy asking questions. Social media savvy is a plus.


Learning Outcomes

Students will be instilled with quite a lot of insight into the film festival world. Our goal is to share our 25+ years of film industry experience to help our interns grow.


Hammad Zaidi owns the Lonely Seal Company Group is a member of the Producers Guild of America the Writers Guild of America; and he is a certified buyer at several film festivals and film sales markets worldwide, including Cannes, so our insight will undoubtedly help students along their career path.


Supervisor title

Hammad Zaidi founded the Lonely Seal Film, Screenplay and Music Festival.


Training the intern will receive

Students will get detailed insight into all aspects of running a film, screenplay, and music festival, from reviewing films and screenplays to strategizing sponsorships and creating and maintaining a social media footprint. Our goal is to feed our interns with vital information they can use for their entire careers.



About Lonely Seal Film, Screenplay, and Music Festival.

We cherish inclusiveness, independent voices, and stories aching to be told. Our festival is October 4-8, 2023, and October 10-13, 2024, at the historic Regent Theatre, a 100-year-old plus classic cinema house in Arlington (Boston), MA. Dates for Los Angeles, New York, Atlanta and Paris will be determined shortly.