Films by Daniel Kremer

A Collection of Chemicals is an absurdist comedy/drama that tells the story of terminally bored recent widower Si Foster (William Cully Allen), an eccentric and terribly lonely puzzle of a man who is also a self-proclaimed eggplant connoisseur. His daughter Sonya (Katya Quinn-Judge) was kidnapped two years prior and, for reasons unknown to her, the ransom somehow never wound being paid. As the Fourth of July approaches and Si finds that he has virtually no one with whom to celebrate the holiday, he finally gets up the nerve to contact the kidnappers through their intermediary. He agrees to pay the ransom with the inheritance he was left and is soon reunited with her...only to find that she has accepted her captors as her new family and has grown to love them as such. Alas, the oddball Si is clueless and inept in interacting and trying to re-establish his relationship with her. But Sonya has a few tricks up her sleeve to get him to reveal why she was seemingly abandoned by her father two years prior...with the help of some strange cargo she has brought back home with her.

2009 / 28 minutes / Color / HD-24P / 1.78:1
Written, Photographed and Directed by Daniel Kremer; Produced by Kevin Eldridge, Yvonne Yao, William Cully Allen and Daniel Kremer; Associate Producers Aaron Hollander and Ephraim Asili; Executive Producers Max Margulies and Cynthia Eberly; Production Designer Charles Thackeray; Sound Design Andrei Litvinov and Alena Kruchkova; Graphic Designer Doctor Pizzoli
Starring William Cully Allen (Si Foster), Katya Quinn-Judge (Sonya Foster), Gabriel Allen (The Masked Man), Keith Baxter (The Pharmacist)

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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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