Tom Demar writes topical dramedy films with music and nostalgia. He delves deeply into his characters' emotional life. Tom grew up in a small blue-collar town thirty miles downriver from Pittsburgh. His first interests were music and journalism. The Penn State grad moved to New York City to jump into theater labs writing, directing and acting.

 

He traveled through Europe for a year, then drove across the U.S. to Los Angeles, where one of his plays, a coming-of-age hip hop comedy cast with a dozen young actors from an L.A. Job Corps acting class, and with a performance run on Hollywood's Theater Row, became a film, and was selected by Dances With Films, a respected boutique indie film festival, screening at Laemmle Theater. Tom wrote, composed, directed and co-produced the film, the stage play, and the radio play performed live over KXLU, an L.A. college station. He was hooked.

 

Since then he's written, directed, co-produced, acted and/or composed music for features and shorts screened at Sundance, DGA, LA Live, Krikorian, Mann's Chinese, Downtown Independent and more. Tom is a member of ALAP (Alliance of Los Angeles Playwrights) and the Craft Services Network of screenwriters and filmmakers. He has several original film projects in development, including:

 

I NEARLY LOST YOU,

LOVE CHILD,

FREE FLO  and

PARTY GIRL SAVES THE WORLD 

 

Tom pitches to producers and executives live and virtually. His theater experience helps him appreciate a layered, nuanced, subtextual, dialogue-driven style evident in his film scripts. His journalism training lends to his passion for research, listening and observing. His music upbringing helps develop his love for rhythm in speech and for colorful musical characters.
 

Tom relays hopes and dreams, desires and desperation, the wilder side. He's been described as a man who listens.