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Daniel Kremer

Daniel Kremer is a multifaceted filmmaker, film historian, biographer, and professional film archivist born and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He honed his craft at Temple University, graduating from its esteemed film program before relocating to San Francisco. Kremer’s directorial debut came in 2007 with the feature film *Sophisticated Acquaintance*. This was followed by *A Trip to Swadades* in 2008, shot on black-and-white super-16mm film, which earned him three Best Feature Film awards and led to an international festival circuit that included a screening at Rotterdam.

After nearly seven years in New York City, where he also explored religious studies to become an Orthodox rabbi, Kremer returned to filmmaking with the critically acclaimed *The Idiotmaker's Gravity Tour* in 2011, primarily filmed in India. He continued to build his filmography with works such as *Raise Your Kids on Seltzer* (2015), *Ezer Kenegdo* (2017), *Overwhelm the Sky* (2019), and *Even Just* (2020) in the San Francisco Bay Area. *Overwhelm the Sky* received special recognition for its release in the classic “roadshow” format and was distributed by Kino Lorber.

Kremer's documentary *It's a Zabriskie, Zabriskie, Zabriskie, Zabriskie Point* (2023) has been praised by prominent critics, including the British Film Institute’s Gerald Peary. He has screened his work at numerous prestigious festivals, including TIFF and the International Film Festival Rotterdam. In addition to his filmmaking, Kremer is a noted author, with his second book on filmmaker Joan Micklin Silver forthcoming from Oxford University Press, and has contributed to DVD/Blu-ray commentary tracks for sixteen companies. He is also recognized as a guru on Trailers from Hell, sharing the platform with esteemed filmmakers like Guillermo del Toro and Joe

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