Michael McDermit makes and produces documentary films, books and other projects under a small independent creative imprint, Blurry Pictures. McDermit co-directed the feature documentary ᏓᏗᏬᏂᏏ (WE WILL SPEAK), about Cherokee activists fighting to save their language; it premiered at the Cleveland International Film Festival, and played at over 40 other festivals, Universities, and museums including the Atlanta Film Festival, Provincetown International Film Festival, Yale University, the Smithsonian Institute, and the American Museum of Natural History, among other places. BP film STRAWBERRY FOREVER, about McDermit’s father’s struggle with the language disorder aphasia, won the 2021 Audience Choice Award at the disABILITY Film Festival. In addition to filmmaking, McDermit is an English Professor in South Los Angeles.

Films

Latin Clowns Evolution

Jacob Koestler, Michael McDermit, Jamie Rogers Caballero

ᏓᏗᏬᏂᏏ (We Will Speak)

ᎤᎶᎩᎳ / Schon Duncan, ᎨᎳᏗ / Keli Gonzales, Laura Heberton, Michael McDermit

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