Daniel Kremer

Filmmaker film historian biographer and professional film archivist Daniel Kremer grew up in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania He graduated Temple Universitys 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 blackandwhite super16mm film won three Best Feature Film awards Following that films 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 followup feature The Idiotmakers 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 Nilssons 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 cinemathemed essay documentary Its 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 Kentuckys 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 DVDBluRay 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