Known For
Directing
Born
Jul 23, 1984
Place of Birth
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Credits
47 titles
Daniel Kremer
Biography
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.
Known For
Filmography
A Man of Potential: Visions of Paul Wendkos, the Godard of Gidget
Narrator
Now, Irving Rapper
Narrator
William Wyler: Forty Takes Willy
Himself
Love Left the Masquerade: Peter Medak's Cinema of Pretenders
Narrator
Cruel, Usual, Necessary: The Passion of Silvio Narizzano
Narrator
Jack of Three Trades: In Focus on Nicholson the Director
Narrator (voice)
Survival Scars: Franklin J. Schaffner as Auteur
Narrator
Dead Neon: The Many Faces of Lenny Bruce on Film
Narrator
Cinema of the Pilpul: A Talmudic View of Early Holocaust Cinema
Narrator
It's a Zabriskie, Zabriskie, Zabriskie, Zabriskie Point
Narrator
Clear Lines of Sight: Sidney J. Furie at Paramount
Narrator
Elective Vicissitudes: The Radical Exiles of Jules Dassin
Narrator
The Brando Interregnum: The Decade of Marlon's Dirty Dozen 1962-1972
Narrator
Paralyzed Segments: Suzanne Pleshette Tangled Up in Codes
Narrator
The Great Ecstasy of Tree-Climber Otto, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Late Preminger
Narrator
Xenolith Atlas
La Vie en Gris: The Anglophone Louis Malle in Seven Pictures
Narrator
Ammo for Shooting Clouds: John G. Avildsen Before Rocky
Narrator
Looking to Get Out: A Comparative Analysis of the Ted Kotcheff Vision
Narrator
Faultline
Second Unit Director
Equinox Expressway
Cinematography
Arid Cut
Judd
Overwhelm the Sky
Editor
Drive Me to Vegas and Mars
Assistant Director
Torch
Editor
Ezer Kenegdo
Izzy Jonigkeyt
The Fourth Movement
Ari
Summer Sacrament
Editor
Next Week in Bologna
Editor
Love Twice
Editor
Raise Your Kids on Seltzer
Director
Righteous Rebel: Rabbi Avi Weiss
Editor
A Simple Game of Catch
Director
The Wind Blows Where It Wishes
Don Marco
The Idiotmaker's Gravity Tour
Director
A Collection of Chemicals
Screenplay
Points on a Space Age
Editor
Jim and the Infidels
Director of Photography
A Trip to Swadades
Director
Sophisticated Acquaintance
Director
Ben Fries the Slaves
Dan Kramer
David Cronenberg Presents Wireless Internet
Dan Kramer
Charles at the Threshold
Director
Danny and the Scatman
Self
Countercurrents
Director
Even Just
Mr. Slivovitz, the Image Inspector
Sidney J. Furie: Fire Up the Carousel!
Director