Daniel Kremer

Born: 1984-07-23

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.


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

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Released: 2023-10-08

Worlds collide in this unconventional essay film, when filmmaker, film historian, and archivist...

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Dead Neon: The Many Faces of Lenny Bruce on Film

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Released: 2023-12-27

Lenny Bruce's depiction on film did not start or end with Bob Fosse's Lenny (1974). Through...

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

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Released: 2022-10-26

What do the movies First Blood and Weekend at Bernie's have in common? One man with a clear and...

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

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Released: 2022-12-28

Between One Eyed Jacks (1961) and The Godfather (1972), Marlon Brando appeared in twelve feature...

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Ben Fries the Slaves

as Dan Kramer
Released: 2007-04-06

Fourteen year-old Ben Fries has a cult following, a 22-year-old girlfriend, and a mortal enemy...

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Cruel, Usual, Necessary: The Passion of Silvio Narizzano

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Released: 2024-08-30

Perhaps at first glance, the filmography of Silvio Narizzano appears unremarkable. Thanks to his...

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Ezer Kenegdo

as Izzy Jonigkeyt
Released: 2017-10-27

Frictions develop when Yisroel "Izzy" Jonigkeyt, a Chassidic Jew from Crown Heights, travels to...

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Paralyzed Segments: Suzanne Pleshette Tangled Up in Codes

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Released: 2022-12-28

A video essay about fifties and early sixties social and sexual mores, in life and in cinema,...

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Arid Cut

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Released: 2019-10-12

Sky-high housing costs, rents no one can pay, urban development, and street crime make life...

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

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Released: 2022-12-27

Otto Preminger wasn't only one of the most famous directors of classic Hollywood. He was a...

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Xenolith Atlas

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Released: 2022-12-19

An imagined plague diary

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Jack of Three Trades: In Focus on Nicholson the Director

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Released: 2024-03-26

We all know Jack Nicholson the actor. But few know the history of Jack Nicholson the...

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The Fourth Movement

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Released: 2017-10-14

Four interlocking stories with a Jazz theme. Four Women go out to visit the sites of the jazz...

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Survival Scars: Franklin J. Schaffner as Auteur

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Released: 2023-12-27

Franklin J. Schaffner is the man behind a great many iconic American films: Planet of the Apes...

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The Wind Blows Where It Wishes

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Released: 2011-09-18

Carla Durkow is a filmmaker from Istanbul who screens her latest work, entitled Farewell Mighty...

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Elective Vicissitudes: The Radical Exiles of Jules Dassin

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Released: 2023-05-31

In 1968, filmmaker Jules Dassin collaborated with Ruby Dee and civil rights activist Julian...

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

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Released: 2023-12-27

The most that mainstream culture knows of the Talmud is from the finale scene of Schindler's...

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Clear Lines of Sight: Sidney J. Furie at Paramount

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Released: 2023-07-25

Canadian-born filmmaker Sidney J. Furie made his name with British hits like The Young Ones...

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David Cronenberg Presents Wireless Internet

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Released: 2006-11-17

David Cronenberg (the well-known Canadian director's American film-student counterpart) is...

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

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Released: 2022-10-26

Filmmaker Louis Malle worked adjacent to the French Nouvelle Vague, but was admittedly never...

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Ammo for Shooting Clouds: John G. Avildsen Before Rocky

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Released: 2022-10-26

John G. Avildsen has only recently cemented his reputation as the "king of the underdogs," owing...

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