Tom Demar

Tom Demar grew up in a blue-collar town thirty miles upriver from Pittsburgh, PA. His first emphases were in music and journalism. After graduating from Penn State he moved to New York City and got involved in the theater scene. After traveling through Europe for a year, he drove across the U.S. to Los Angeles, where one of his plays became a film that screened at Dances With Films festival at the Laemmle Theater. Since then he has gone on to write, direct, produce, act and compose music for indie films screened at Sundance, DGA, LA Live, Krikorian, Mann’s Chinese, Downtown Independent and more. Tom continues to travel and tells the stories of hopes and dreams, desires and desperation, the wilder side of America. He’s been described as a man who listens.