Films by Daniel Kremer

Charles at the Threshold is a tender drama that tells the story of Charles and Sabina, two intelligent and well-read teenagers who have just graduated high school at the top of their class. They decide to get married at eighteen just one week after they graduate, only to divorce at the age of nineteen. The years pass and Charles, a self-professed “old soul,” begins seeing a woman named Jillian, a fragile free-spirit who had a child when she was twenty. When a seemingly typical friendly lunch meeting with Sabina approaches, Charles begins showing signs of anxiety—and from just observing him, Jillian realizes where the mysterious Charles’ true feelings may lie, and that the love he held held for Sabina might have been more than impulsive or lacking in maturity.

2006 / 27 minutes / Color / 24P / 1.66:1
Written and Directed by Daniel Kremer; Produced by Andrei Litvinov; Director of Photography Kyle Pahlow
Starring David Coleman (Charles), Liat Tayar (Sabina), Brooke Somers (Jillian)

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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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