Galen Bremer is a producer, composer, and occasional filmmaker based in Brooklyn, NY. From 2014-2017, he was the Producer of the Dance on Camera Festival, which is co-presented annually by the Film Society of Lincoln Center and Dance Films Association. Since 2018, Galen has produced and led production for the Brooklyn Film Festival, a 10-day international, competitive festival whose mission to promote artistic excellence and the creative freedom of artists without censure. He has directed and produced film and media industry events for a number of arts organizations and independent artists that share in his vision of using technology as a means of innovative collaboration and groundbreaking presentation.
Galen’s frequently collaborates with NYC-based filmmakers and choreographers, and has created films, new media works, and music compositions that have been presented at venues in NYC and abroad, such as Judson Memorial Church, New York Theatre Workshop, West End Theater, Plus81 Gallery, and Film at Lincoln Center, as well as Cucalorus Film Festival in Wilmington, NC, Detroit Institute of Arts in Detroit, MI, New Dance Festival in Daejeon, South Korea, GRRL HAUS CINEMA in Berlin, Germany, Dance on Screen Festival in Graz, Austria, and the Muestra Internacional de Videoarte y Videodanza, in Guadalajara, Mexico. He participated on a panel focused on interactive storytelling and live film technologies at the 2017 SXSW Festival in Austin, TX.
He has been an artist-in-residence at Fleet Moves Dance Festival in Wellfleet, MA, The Marble House Project in Dorset, VT, Lake Studios Berlin, and Judson Memorial Church. Galen is a New Music USA and Brooklyn Arts Council grant recipient, and in 2024 he earned an M.F.A. in Media Scoring from the Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema, part of Brooklyn College and The City University of New York (CUNY).