His earlier short films were selected by over a hundred international competitions and festivals, including the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival, France. Retrospectives of his body of work from the period between 2007 and 2016 were recently presented in Morocco, in Ukraine and in South Korea. Demers is currently working on the screenplay for his first fiction feature, while also writing his Master’s thesis on the aesthetics of memory in film at the Université de Montreal.