Daniel Kremer

Daniel Kremer (born July 23, 1984) is an American film director, biographer and film historian. Kremer is perhaps best known for directing the multi award-winning A Trip to Swadades (2008), The Idiotmaker's Gravity Tour (2011),^[1] Raise Your Kids on Seltzer (2016), Sophisticated Acquaintance (2007), Ezer Kenegdo (2016), A Simple Game of Catch (2012), Yarns To Be Spun on the Way to the Happy Home (2007), and A Collection of Chemicals (2009).

In November 2015, he published the book Sidney J. Furie: Life and Films through University Press of Kentucky's Screen Classics Series, edited by esteemed entertainment biographer Patrick McGilligan. Sidney J. Furie: Life and Films was written with Furie's full cooperation and involvement. Toronto International Film Festival director Piers Handling, who is a leading scholar of Canadian cinema, wrote the book's Foreword. Actor Michael Caine stated, "How wonderful that there is finally a book about Sidney J. Furie, one of the best filmmakers in the whole of my career!"^[2]

Kremer is currently working on two book projects: Joan Micklin Silver: From Hester Street to Hollywood^[3] and Susan Sontag on Film, edited with David Thomson and Tom Luddy, which is due out from Picador in 2017. He has written for Filmmaker Magazine^[4] and is represented by legendary New York literary agent Georges Borchardt.^[5]

In 2009, he founded the ConFluence-Film Blog.^[6] Kremer is also credited with excavating and preserving A Cool Sound from Hell (1959), a long-thought-lost piece of Canadian film history.^[7] The film had a "one-time-only FREE screening"^[8] at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2016. Kremer is a FIX Filmmaker on the independent cinema streaming service Fandor. ^[9]

Kremer was twice a guest on The Projection Booth podcast, alongside Sidney J. Furie and internationally renowned experimental filmmaker Peter Tscherkassky. The two episodes respectively discussed the films Hit! (1973)^[10] and The Entity (1982).^[11] Kremer is scheduled to return as a guest for a February 14, 2017, Projection Booth podcast, about Joan Micklin Silver's Chilly Scenes of Winter (1979), which will feature Joan Micklin Silver and the film's star John Heard.

Kremer works regularly with San Francisco Bay Area filmmaking icon Rob Nilsson and his stock company of actors and technicians. In 2016, Kremer helped form a filmmaking collective with many fellow Nilsson alumni. He made both Raise Your Kids on Seltzer (2015) and Ezer Kenegdo (2016) in the Bay Area with Nilsson and his crew. The former features Barry Newman, the star of the cult movie Vanishing Point, while the latter stars independent director Josh Safdie.

Kremer worked as film editor with Nilsson on two feature films, including the Bologna International Filmmaking Academy production Next Week in Bologna (2016), and Love Twice (2016), which features Velvet Underground star John Cale in a supporting role. Kremer also edited a 2014 documentary about the controversial rabbi Avi Weiss, which screened frequently on PBS in New York.

In 1999, Kremer figured prominently in filmmaker Peter Nicks's Danny and the Scatman,^[12] a Marlon Riggs Award-winning documentary about stuttering/stammering, which also featured international pop-music icon Scatman John. Kremer later re-purposed footage from the film for his own short essay documentary Yarns To Be Spun on the Way to the Happy Home (2007), which won four Best Documentary film festival awards.

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