Brian McDermott

<p>Brian McDermott, (Producer/Director), is a filmmaker and social worker who has worked with adjudicated youth, families in poverty and institutionalized senior citizens. Through his films, Brian hopes to engender empathy and pursue social justice. Brian has written three feature scripts, and has also written and directed three short films including an award-winning film on aging and assisted living entitled 'Cigarettes and Fresh Air,' which screened in festivals including the 2006 Sarasota Film Festival and the 2007 Moondance Film Festival, aired on public TV and is now in distribution. In 2008, Brian conceived of making Lost Words as a way of raising awareness about the importance of language revitalization among American Indians. In 2009 he began learning to speak Arapaho, an endangered Native American language. Brian holds an MFA in Film and Media Arts from Temple University and an MSW in Social Work from the University of Pennsylvania.<br /><br /></p>

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