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Film Bite, Inc. is a vertical filmmaking production and distribution entity based in Hermosa Beach, California. Our company was founded by Hammad Zaidi<\/a>,\u00a0<\/b>a 30+-year veteran of the film industry. Zaidi is the founder of The Lonely Seal Company Group<\/a>, which includes Lonely Seal Releasing,<\/a> an international film and television distribution and sales company, The Lonely Seal International Film, Screenplay & Music Festival<\/a>, cited as a multiple-time \u201cTop 100 Best Reviewed Festival,\u201d and Lonely Seal Streaming. <\/a>He is one of 1,200 Priority Cinema Buyers <\/a>worldwide. Hammad is also on the Board of Directors of Cinema Without Borders<\/a> and on the Advisory Board of the Master\u2019s\u00a0in Entertainment Leadership and Management\u00a0(MELM) at Loyola Marymount University (LMU).<\/a> Additionally, Hammad is the principal of The Story Oasis Fund<\/a>, a new fund focused on investments in film, sports, and media. Zaidi is also a founding partner and CEO of the Ryz Sports Network<\/a>, a Sports FAST Channel currently showcased on every major FAST platform in the United States.<\/p>\n

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Vertical filmmaking is the production of video content in a 9:16 aspect ratio, designed specifically for smartphone viewing in portrait mode. It showcases 1-3-minute episodes with addictive storylines, often ending in cliffhangers. Film Bite strives to be among the first independent entities to bring vertical filmmaking to the United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Film Bite, Inc. is a vertical filmmaking production and distribution entity based in Hermosa Beach, California. Our company was founded by Hammad Zaidi,\u00a0a 30+-year veteran of the film industry. Zaidi is the founder of The Lonely Seal Company Group, which includes Lonely Seal Releasing, an international film and television distribution […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inspiro_page_layout":"narrow","inspiro_hide_title":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-173","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmbite.tv\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmbite.tv\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmbite.tv\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmbite.tv\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmbite.tv\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/filmbite.tv\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":239,"href":"https:\/\/filmbite.tv\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/173\/revisions\/239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmbite.tv\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}