Damian McDermott
2021 Judge
Role/organisation
Executive Producer – Entertainment
SBS
Location
NSW
Australia
Short bio
For over twenty years, Damian McDermott has created content for free to air and pay TV networks as well as numerous independent film and documentary projects. From 2011 to 2014, Damian created arts and entertainment based content for SBS’s Studio channel. And for the last five years has been the Executive Producer of Entertainment at SBS, producing titles including Eurovision, Mastermind, The Cook Up, Celebrity Letters and Numbers and The Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras. Damian’s first festival nomination was as a teenager at the 1993 ATOM Awards (or maybe it was 1992 – it was a long time ago!)