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Daniel Kremer

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Daniel Kremer

Born July 23, 1984 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA30 films

Filmmaker, film historian, biographer, and professional film archivist Daniel Kremer grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He graduated Temple University's film program and now lives in San Francisco. In 2007, while living in Philadelphia, he directed his first feature Sophisticated Acquaintance (2007). His second feature A Trip to Swadades (2008), which was shot on black-and-white super-16mm film, won three Best Feature Film awards. Following that film's international festival tour (which included Rotterdam), he moved to New York City, where he lived for nearly seven years. At one point, he studied to be an Orthodox rabbi, but gave it up to continue pursuing film.

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In 2011, he completed his acclaimed follow-up feature, The Idiotmaker's Gravity Tour (2011). The film was lensed predominantly in India. Subsequent to that, he directed Raise Your Kids on Seltzer (2015), Ezer Kenegdo (2017), Overwhelm the Sky (2019), and Even Just (2020) in the San Francisco Bay Area, using independent filmmaking icon Rob Nilsson's regular cast and crew. The critically lauded Overwhelm the Sky was given special coverage for having been released in the classic epic "roadshow" format, and was picked up for distribution by Kino Lorber. His partly autobiographical cinema-themed essay documentary It's a Zabriskie, Zabriskie, Zabriskie, Zabriskie Point (2023) garnered raves from the British Film Institute, veteran critic Gerald Peary (For the Love of Movies), and many others.

Kremer has screened work at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), the Joseph Conrad Festival in Krakow, Poland, Maryland International Film Festival, San Francisco Independent Film Festival, Brussels International Film Festival, Glasgow Film Festival, the International Film Festival Rotterdam, Fantasporto Film Festival in Porto, Portugal, Rivers Edge International Film Festival, Mill Valley Film Festival, and many other international venues.

His second book, currently in editing at Oxford University Press, is the first to cover filmmaker Joan Micklin Silver (Hester Street, Chilly Scenes of Winter, Crossing Delancey). His first book, about the life and career of filmmaker Sidney J. Furie (The Ipcress File, Lady Sings the Blues, The Boys in Company C, The Entity), was published by University Press of Kentucky's Screen Classics Series in November 2015. His third book, now being researched, will be the first to cover the life and career of classic Hollywood director Irving Rapper (Now Voyager, The Corn is Green, The Brave One, Marjorie Morningstar). As a film scholar, he has provided DVD/Blu-Ray commentary tracks for sixteen companies. As a Trailers from Hell guru, he is listed alongside other gurus like Guillermo del Toro, Luca Guadagnino, Eli Roth, Joe Dante, Edgar Wright, John Landis, Roger Corman, John Sayles, and many others.

Filmography

30 films as director
  1. TBAEven JustDirector
  2. TBACountercurrentsDirector
  3. TBASidney J. Furie: Fire Up the Carousel!Director
  4. 2026A Man of Potential: Visions of Paul Wendkos, the Godard of GidgetDirector
  5. 2026Now, Irving RapperDirector
  6. 2025Love Left the Masquerade: Peter Medak's Cinema of PretendersDirector
  7. 2024Cruel, Usual, Necessary: The Passion of Silvio NarizzanoDirector
  8. 2024Jack of Three Trades: In Focus on Nicholson the DirectorDirector
  9. 2023Dead Neon: The Many Faces of Lenny Bruce on FilmDirector
  10. 2023Cinema of the Pilpul: A Talmudic View of Early Holocaust CinemaDirector
  11. 2023Survival Scars: Franklin J. Schaffner as AuteurDirector
  12. 2023It's a Zabriskie, Zabriskie, Zabriskie, Zabriskie PointDirector
  13. 2023Clear Lines of Sight: Sidney J. Furie at ParamountDirector
  14. 2023Elective Vicissitudes: The Radical Exiles of Jules DassinDirector
  15. 2022Paralyzed Segments: Suzanne Pleshette Tangled Up in CodesDirector
  16. 2022The Brando Interregnum: The Decade of Marlon's Dirty Dozen 1962-1972Director
  17. 2022The Great Ecstasy of Tree-Climber Otto, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Late PremingerDirector
  18. 2022La Vie en Gris: The Anglophone Louis Malle in Seven PicturesDirector
  19. 2022Ammo for Shooting Clouds: John G. Avildsen Before RockyDirector
  20. 2022Looking to Get Out: A Comparative Analysis of the Ted Kotcheff VisionDirector
  21. 2022Equinox ExpresswayDirector
  22. 2019Overwhelm the SkyDirector
  23. 2017Ezer KenegdoDirector
  24. 2015Raise Your Kids on SeltzerDirector
  25. 2012A Simple Game of CatchDirector
  26. 2011The Idiotmaker's Gravity TourDirector
  27. 2009A Collection of ChemicalsDirector
  28. 2008A Trip to SwadadesDirector
  29. 2007Sophisticated AcquaintanceDirector
  30. 2006Charles at the ThresholdDirector