About

Known credits:
75
Birthday:
1984-07-23
Place of birth:
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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Daniel Kremer

Overview

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

Acting
2024 Cruel, Usual, Necessary: The Passion of Silvio Narizzano Actor Narrator N/A
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2023 Cinema of the Pilpul: A Talmudic View of Early Holocaust Cinema Actor Narrator N/A
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2023 Dead Neon: The Many Faces of Lenny Bruce on Film Actor Narrator 59
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2023 It's a Zabriskie, Zabriskie, Zabriskie, Zabriskie Point Actor Narrator N/A
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2022 Paralyzed Segments: Suzanne Pleshette Tangled Up in Codes Actor Narrator N/A
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2022 The Brando Interregnum: The Decade of Marlon's Dirty Dozen 1962-1972 Actor Narrator N/A
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2022 The Great Ecstasy of Tree-Climber Otto, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Late Preminger Actor Narrator N/A
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2022 Xenolith Atlas Actor N/A
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2022 La Vie en Gris: The Anglophone Louis Malle in Seven Pictures Actor Narrator N/A
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2019 Arid Cut Actor Judd N/A
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2017 Ezer Kenegdo Actor Izzy Jonigkeyt 59
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2017 The Fourth Movement Actor Ari N/A
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2011 The Wind Blows Where It Wishes Actor Don Marco N/A
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2007 Ben Fries the Slaves Actor Dan Kramer N/A
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2006 David Cronenberg Presents Wireless Internet Actor Dan Kramer N/A
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1999 Danny and the Scatman Actor Self N/A
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Directing
2024 Cruel, Usual, Necessary: The Passion of Silvio Narizzano Directing Director N/A
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2023 Cinema of the Pilpul: A Talmudic View of Early Holocaust Cinema Directing Director N/A
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2023 Dead Neon: The Many Faces of Lenny Bruce on Film Directing Director 59
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2023 It's a Zabriskie, Zabriskie, Zabriskie, Zabriskie Point Directing Director N/A
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2022 Paralyzed Segments: Suzanne Pleshette Tangled Up in Codes Directing Director N/A
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2022 The Brando Interregnum: The Decade of Marlon's Dirty Dozen 1962-1972 Directing Director N/A
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2022 The Great Ecstasy of Tree-Climber Otto, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Late Preminger Directing Director N/A
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2022 La Vie en Gris: The Anglophone Louis Malle in Seven Pictures Directing Director N/A
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2022 Faultline Directing Second Unit Director N/A
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2019 Overwhelm the Sky Directing Director 59
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2017 Ezer Kenegdo Directing Director 59
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2015 Raise Your Kids on Seltzer Directing Director 59
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2012 A Simple Game of Catch Directing Director N/A
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2011 The Idiotmaker's Gravity Tour Directing Director 58
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2009 A Collection of Chemicals Directing Director N/A
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2008 A Trip to Swadades Directing Director 59
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2007 Sophisticated Acquaintance Directing Director 59
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Sidney J. Furie: Fire Up the Carousel! Directing Director N/A
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Drive Me to Vegas and Mars Directing Assistant Director N/A
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Countercurrents Directing Director N/A
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Even Just Directing Director N/A
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Writing
2024 Cruel, Usual, Necessary: The Passion of Silvio Narizzano Writing Writer N/A
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2023 Cinema of the Pilpul: A Talmudic View of Early Holocaust Cinema Writing Writer N/A
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2023 Dead Neon: The Many Faces of Lenny Bruce on Film Writing Writer 59
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2023 It's a Zabriskie, Zabriskie, Zabriskie, Zabriskie Point Writing Writer N/A
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2022 The Brando Interregnum: The Decade of Marlon's Dirty Dozen 1962-1972 Writing Writer N/A
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2022 Paralyzed Segments: Suzanne Pleshette Tangled Up in Codes Writing Writer N/A
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2022 The Great Ecstasy of Tree-Climber Otto, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Late Preminger Writing Writer N/A
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2022 La Vie en Gris: The Anglophone Louis Malle in Seven Pictures Writing Writer N/A
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2019 Overwhelm the Sky Writing Story 59
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2019 Overwhelm the Sky Writing Screenplay 59
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2017 Ezer Kenegdo Writing Writer 59
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2015 Raise Your Kids on Seltzer Writing Writer 59
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2011 The Idiotmaker's Gravity Tour Writing Writer 58
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2009 A Collection of Chemicals Writing Screenplay N/A
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2008 A Trip to Swadades Writing Writer 59
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2007 Sophisticated Acquaintance Writing Writer 59
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Countercurrents Writing Writer N/A
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Production
2023 It's a Zabriskie, Zabriskie, Zabriskie, Zabriskie Point Production Producer N/A
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2019 Overwhelm the Sky Production Producer 59
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Camera
2012 A Simple Game of Catch Camera Director of Photography N/A
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2008 Jim and the Infidels Camera Director of Photography N/A
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2007 Ben Fries the Slaves Camera Director of Photography N/A
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Even Just Camera Director of Photography N/A
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Editing
2024 Cruel, Usual, Necessary: The Passion of Silvio Narizzano Editing Editor N/A
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2023 Cinema of the Pilpul: A Talmudic View of Early Holocaust Cinema Editing Editor N/A
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2023 It's a Zabriskie, Zabriskie, Zabriskie, Zabriskie Point Editing Editor N/A
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2022 Paralyzed Segments: Suzanne Pleshette Tangled Up in Codes Editing Editor N/A
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2022 The Brando Interregnum: The Decade of Marlon's Dirty Dozen 1962-1972 Editing Editor N/A
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2022 The Great Ecstasy of Tree-Climber Otto, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Late Preminger Editing Editor N/A
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2022 La Vie en Gris: The Anglophone Louis Malle in Seven Pictures Editing Editor N/A
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2019 Overwhelm the Sky Editing Editor 59
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2018 Torch Editing Editor N/A
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2017 Ezer Kenegdo Editing Editor 59
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2017 Summer Sacrament Editing Editor N/A
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2016 Next Week in Bologna Editing Editor N/A
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2016 Love Twice Editing Editor 58
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2014 Righteous Rebel: Rabbi Avi Weiss Editing Editor N/A
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2009 Points on a Space Age Editing Editor N/A
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