Daniel Kremer
Directing
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
Directing32
movieNow, Irving Rapper
2026
Director
movieFaultline
2022
Second Unit Director
movieEquinox Expressway
2022
Director
movieOverwhelm the Sky
2019
Director
movieDrive Me to Vegas and Mars
2018
Assistant Director
movieEzer Kenegdo
2017
Director
movieA Simple Game of Catch
2012
Director
movieA Trip to Swadades
2008
Director
movieEven Just
Director
movieCountercurrents
Director
Acting26
movieNow, Irving Rapper
2026
Narrator
movieEzer Kenegdo
2017
Izzy Jonigkeyt
movieBen Fries the Slaves
2007
Dan Kramer
Writing26
movieOverwhelm the Sky
2019
Screenplay, Story
movieEzer Kenegdo
2017
Writer
movieA Collection of Chemicals
2009
Screenplay
movieCountercurrents
Writer
Editing25
Camera4
movieA Simple Game of Catch
2012
Director of Photography
movieJim and the Infidels
2008
Director of Photography
movieBen Fries the Slaves
2007
Director of Photography
movieEven Just
Director of Photography
Production2
Crew1
movieEquinox Expressway
2022
Cinematography