Daniel Kremer

Known for DirectingBorn 1984-07-23 (age 41)Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Love Left the Masquerade: Peter Medak's Cinema of Pretenders

Overwhelm the Sky

Raise Your Kids on Seltzer

Dead Neon: The Many Faces of Lenny Bruce on Film

Sophisticated Acquaintance

The Idiotmaker's Gravity Tour

A Trip to Swadades

Torch

Love Twice

Ezer Kenegdo

Now, Irving Rapper

A Man of Potential: Visions of Paul Wendkos, the Godard of Gidget

William Wyler: Forty Takes Willy

Jack of Three Trades: In Focus on Nicholson the Director

Cruel, Usual, Necessary: The Passion of Silvio Narizzano

It's a Zabriskie, Zabriskie, Zabriskie, Zabriskie Point

Cinema of the Pilpul: A Talmudic View of Early Holocaust Cinema

Survival Scars: Franklin J. Schaffner as Auteur

Elective Vicissitudes: The Radical Exiles of Jules Dassin

Clear Lines of Sight: Sidney J. Furie at Paramount

Xenolith Atlas

Paralyzed Segments: Suzanne Pleshette Tangled Up in Codes

La Vie en Gris: The Anglophone Louis Malle in Seven Pictures

Ammo for Shooting Clouds: John G. Avildsen Before Rocky

Looking to Get Out: A Comparative Analysis of the Ted Kotcheff Vision

The Brando Interregnum: The Decade of Marlon's Dirty Dozen 1962-1972

The Great Ecstasy of Tree-Climber Otto, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Late Preminger

Faultline

Equinox Expressway

Arid Cut

Drive Me to Vegas and Mars

The Fourth Movement

Summer Sacrament

Next Week in Bologna

Righteous Rebel: Rabbi Avi Weiss

A Simple Game of Catch

The Wind Blows Where It Wishes

A Collection of Chemicals

Points on a Space Age

Jim and the Infidels

Ben Fries the Slaves

David Cronenberg Presents Wireless Internet

Charles at the Threshold

Danny and the Scatman

Even Just

Countercurrents

Sidney J. Furie: Fire Up the Carousel!