Daniel Kremer

Directing·Jul 23, 1984·Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

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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. 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.

Film	Credit
A Man of Potential: Visions of Paul Wendkos, the Godard of Gidget2026 · Narrator, Director, Writer	Narrator, Director, Writer
Now, Irving Rapper2026 · Narrator, Director, Writer	Narrator, Director, Writer
William Wyler: Forty Takes Willy2025 · Himself	Himself
Love Left the Masquerade: Peter Medak's Cinema of Pretenders2025 · Narrator, Director, Writer	Narrator, Director, Writer
Cruel, Usual, Necessary: The Passion of Silvio Narizzano2024 · Narrator, Director, Writer	Narrator, Director, Writer
Jack of Three Trades: In Focus on Nicholson the Director2024 · Narrator (voice), Director, Writer	Narrator (voice), Director, Writer
Cinema of the Pilpul: A Talmudic View of Early Holocaust Cinema2023 · Narrator, Director, Writer	Narrator, Director, Writer
Survival Scars: Franklin J. Schaffner as Auteur2023 · Narrator, Director, Writer	Narrator, Director, Writer
Dead Neon: The Many Faces of Lenny Bruce on Film2023 · Narrator, Director, Writer	Narrator, Director, Writer
It's a Zabriskie, Zabriskie, Zabriskie, Zabriskie Point2023 · Narrator, Producer, Writer, Director	Narrator, Producer, Writer, Director
Clear Lines of Sight: Sidney J. Furie at Paramount2023 · Narrator, Director, Writer	Narrator, Director, Writer
Elective Vicissitudes: The Radical Exiles of Jules Dassin2023 · Narrator, Director, Writer	Narrator, Director, Writer
Paralyzed Segments: Suzanne Pleshette Tangled Up in Codes2022 · Narrator, Director, Writer	Narrator, Director, Writer
The Brando Interregnum: The Decade of Marlon's Dirty Dozen 1962-19722022 · Narrator, Director, Writer	Narrator, Director, Writer
The Great Ecstasy of Tree-Climber Otto, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Late Preminger2022 · Narrator, Director, Writer	Narrator, Director, Writer
Xenolith Atlas2022 · Actor	Actor
La Vie en Gris: The Anglophone Louis Malle in Seven Pictures2022 · Narrator, Director, Writer	Narrator, Director, Writer
Ammo for Shooting Clouds: John G. Avildsen Before Rocky2022 · Narrator, Director, Writer	Narrator, Director, Writer
Looking to Get Out: A Comparative Analysis of the Ted Kotcheff Vision2022 · Narrator, Director, Writer	Narrator, Director, Writer
Equinox Expressway2022 · Director	Director
Arid Cut2019 · Judd	Judd
Overwhelm the Sky2019 · Director, Producer, Screenplay	Director, Producer, Screenplay
Ezer Kenegdo2017 · Izzy Jonigkeyt, Writer, Director	Izzy Jonigkeyt, Writer, Director
The Fourth Movement2017 · Ari	Ari
Raise Your Kids on Seltzer2015 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
A Simple Game of Catch2012 · Director, Director of Photography	Director, Director of Photography
The Wind Blows Where It Wishes2011 · Don Marco	Don Marco
The Idiotmaker's Gravity Tour2011 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
A Collection of Chemicals2009 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
Jim and the Infidels2008 · Director of Photography	Director of Photography
A Trip to Swadades2008 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Sophisticated Acquaintance2007 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Ben Fries the Slaves2007 · Dan Kramer, Director of Photography	Dan Kramer, Director of Photography
David Cronenberg Presents Wireless Internet2006 · Dan Kramer	Dan Kramer
Charles at the Threshold2006 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
DDanny and the Scatman1999 · Self	Self
CountercurrentsDirector, Writer	Director, Writer
Even JustDirector, Director of Photography	Director, Director of Photography
Sidney J. Furie: Fire Up the Carousel!Director	Director