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Daniel Kremer

Daniel Kremer

Director · Born 1984-07-23 · Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

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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…

Directed

  1. Dead Neon: The Many Faces of Lenny Bruce on Film (2023) — Director
  2. Ezer Kenegdo (2017) — Director
  3. A Trip to Swadades (2008) — Director
  4. Raise Your Kids on Seltzer (2015) — Director
  5. Sophisticated Acquaintance (2007) — Director
  6. The Idiotmaker's Gravity Tour (2011) — Director
  7. Overwhelm the Sky (2019) — Director
  8. Love Left the Masquerade: Peter Medak's Cinema of Pretenders (2025) — Director
  9. Countercurrents — Director
  10. Even Just — Director
  11. A Collection of Chemicals (2009) — Director
  12. Sidney J. Furie: Fire Up the Carousel! — Director
  13. It's a Zabriskie, Zabriskie, Zabriskie, Zabriskie Point (2023) — Director
  14. A Simple Game of Catch (2012) — Director
  15. Paralyzed Segments: Suzanne Pleshette Tangled Up in Codes (2022) — Director
  16. La Vie en Gris: The Anglophone Louis Malle in Seven Pictures (2022) — Director
  17. Cinema of the Pilpul: A Talmudic View of Early Holocaust Cinema (2023) — Director
  18. Survival Scars: Franklin J. Schaffner as Auteur (2023) — Director
  19. Jack of Three Trades: In Focus on Nicholson the Director (2024) — Director
  20. Elective Vicissitudes: The Radical Exiles of Jules Dassin (2023) — Director
  21. The Great Ecstasy of Tree-Climber Otto, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Late Preminger (2022) — Director
  22. Clear Lines of Sight: Sidney J. Furie at Paramount (2023) — Director
  23. Ammo for Shooting Clouds: John G. Avildsen Before Rocky (2022) — Director
  24. Looking to Get Out: A Comparative Analysis of the Ted Kotcheff Vision (2022) — Director
  25. Equinox Expressway (2022) — Director
  26. Charles at the Threshold (2006) — Director
  27. The Brando Interregnum: The Decade of Marlon's Dirty Dozen 1962-1972 (2022) — Director
  28. Cruel, Usual, Necessary: The Passion of Silvio Narizzano (2024) — Director
  29. Now, Irving Rapper (2026) — Director
  30. A Man of Potential: Visions of Paul Wendkos, the Godard of Gidget (2026) — Director

Also appeared in

  1. Ezer Kenegdo (2017) — Izzy Jonigkeyt
  2. Dead Neon: The Many Faces of Lenny Bruce on Film (2023) — Narrator
  3. William Wyler: Forty Takes Willy (2025) — Himself
  4. Love Left the Masquerade: Peter Medak's Cinema of Pretenders (2025) — Narrator
  5. Danny and the Scatman (1999) — Self
  6. It's a Zabriskie, Zabriskie, Zabriskie, Zabriskie Point (2023) — Narrator
  7. Xenolith Atlas (2022)
  8. The Fourth Movement (2017) — Ari
  9. Arid Cut (2019) — Judd
  10. Paralyzed Segments: Suzanne Pleshette Tangled Up in Codes (2022) — Narrator
  11. La Vie en Gris: The Anglophone Louis Malle in Seven Pictures (2022) — Narrator
  12. Cinema of the Pilpul: A Talmudic View of Early Holocaust Cinema (2023) — Narrator
  13. Ben Fries the Slaves (2007) — Dan Kramer
  14. The Wind Blows Where It Wishes (2011) — Don Marco
  15. Survival Scars: Franklin J. Schaffner as Auteur (2023) — Narrator
  16. David Cronenberg Presents Wireless Internet (2006) — Dan Kramer
  17. Ammo for Shooting Clouds: John G. Avildsen Before Rocky (2022) — Narrator
  18. Looking to Get Out: A Comparative Analysis of the Ted Kotcheff Vision (2022) — Narrator
  19. The Brando Interregnum: The Decade of Marlon's Dirty Dozen 1962-1972 (2022) — Narrator
  20. Jack of Three Trades: In Focus on Nicholson the Director (2024) — Narrator (voice)
  21. Elective Vicissitudes: The Radical Exiles of Jules Dassin (2023) — Narrator
  22. The Great Ecstasy of Tree-Climber Otto, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Late Preminger (2022) — Narrator
  23. Clear Lines of Sight: Sidney J. Furie at Paramount (2023) — Narrator
  24. Cruel, Usual, Necessary: The Passion of Silvio Narizzano (2024) — Narrator
  25. Now, Irving Rapper (2026) — Narrator
  26. A Man of Potential: Visions of Paul Wendkos, the Godard of Gidget (2026) — Narrator