Films by Daniel Kremer

A Simple Game of Catch is an unusual feature-length chamber drama shot over a six-day time-frame with minimal crew and literally no budget. It tells the story of a young woman named Emily, who has just arrived in New York from her hometown of Pittsburgh. She recently has changed her name to Chazz. Jobless, she responds to a job ad involving parrot-sitting for a Manhattanite going out of town, and must weather the emotional repercussions of the humiliating thing she decides to do while cooped up house-sitting, which precipitates in her eavesdropping on the neighbors, all the while having unreciprocated conversations with the parrot.

"A very affecting and well-observed film that reminded me of Michael Haneke's Amour. Alanna Blair leads the way in a film full of impressive performances. Kremer really needs to keep doing what he's doing. I don't see much American stuff like this."
-Rob Nilsson, Cannes Film Festival and Sundance Grand Jury Prize award-winning filmmaker

74 minutes / 2012 / Color / HD 24P / 2.35:1
Directed by Daniel Kremer; Written by Daniel Kremer and Alanna Blair, Produced by Daniel Kremer; Director of Photography Daniel Kremer; Associate Producer Stephen Kaufman and Aaron Hollander; Executive Producers Brett Johnson and William McKeever; Original Music by Thomas Wahnish
Starring Alanna Blair (Emily "Chazz" Powell), Tango the Parrot ("Reggie"), Katya Quinn-Judge ("Yvonne" - Sci-Fi Actress), William McKeever (Russ Madaras), Dave Coleman (Gabe), Hanshi Kaufman (Larry Etzel), William Cully Allen (The Rabbi), Jacob Green (Voice of Joey Vugrincic/Student Neighbor), Abigail Waxman (Next-Door Blanche), Lara Morrow (Concerned Neighbor), Pascal Rawls-Philippe (Meatball Salad)

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About the Filmmaker

Daniel Kremer grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He lives in San Francisco and attended Temple University's film program in Philadelphia. In 2007, he completed his first feature Sophisticated Acquaintance (2007) and was presented with four Best Documentary prizes for Yarns To Be Spun on the Way to the Happy Home (2007), a personal essay film about having grown up with a severe stutter. His second feature A Trip to Swadades (2008), which was shot on black-and-white super-16mm film, won three Best Feature Film awards at international festivals. He then moved to New York City, where he lived for over six years.

He completed his acclaimed follow-up feature, The Idiotmaker's Gravity Tour, in 2011. The film was lensed predominantly in India and is distributed on Fandor. Subsequent to that, he directed Raise Your Kids on Seltzer (2015) and Ezer Kenegdo (2016) in the San Francisco Bay Area, using independent filmmaking icon Rob Nilsson's regular cast and crew. These films respectively feature Sundance Film Festival winner Joshua Safdie (Daddy Longlegs, Heaven Knows What) and cult-favorite actor Barry Newman (Vanishing Point, Petrocelli). Raise Your Kids on Seltzer is scheduled to premiere in New York and Los Angeles theaters in June 2016.

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. The book was written with Furie's collaboration, under esteemed editor Patrick McGilligan. In conjunction with this book, he is also directing a full-length biographical documentary about Furie, entitled Sidney J. Furie: Fire Up the Carousel!. He is also in pre-production on a new feature drama called Precious Wheels Above, and is developing another, a musical based on the songs of departed Bay Area artist David Schickele.

His second book, currently being researched, developed and written, is the first to cover filmmaker Joan Micklin Silver (Hester Street, Chilly Scenes of Winter, Crossing Delancey). With David Thomson and Tom Luddy, he is assisting in the editing of an anthology of Susan Sontag's writings on cinema.

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