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name: "Adam Rehmeier"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/adam-rehmeier"
fi1m_id: "adam-rehmeier"
imdb_id: "nm0716814"
tmdb_id: 910328
wikidata_id: "Q114955858"
roles: ["Producer","Director"]
born: "5 August 1976"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 0
updated: "2026-09-23T12:06:31.453291+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Adam Rehmeier

## Identity

Adam Rehmeier

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/adam-rehmeier
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** adam-rehmeier
- **IMDb ID:** nm0716814
- **TMDB ID:** 910328
- **Wikidata ID:** Q114955858
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q114955858, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0716814/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/910328

Producer and director. Born 5 August 1976 in Nebraska City, Nebraska, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer, Director
- **Born:** 5 August 1976, Nebraska City, Nebraska, USA
- **Also known as:** Adam Carter Rehmeier
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q114955858, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0716814/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/910328

## Fi1m on Adam Rehmeier

> Adam Rehmeier takes an interest in outsiders that survives his moves between horror, comedy and crime. We are persuaded by the tenderness of *Carolina Caroline*, though its lovers give us more to recommend than its familiar plotting.

Samara Weaving and Kyle Gallner give *Carolina Caroline* (2026) a reason to follow two scammers through the American South: we enjoy their company. Adam Rehmeier directs their tender, funny partnership well enough to make a familiar crime romance worth an evening. We warmed to the pair because their humour makes the affection feel sincere, without requiring us to approve of their occupations. The heavier drama is less persuasive, and our recommendation comes with that reservation.

The distance from *The Bunny Game* (2011) to that romance is considerable. Rehmeier co-directed, shot and edited the extreme horror film, before writing and directing *Dinner in America* (2020), which later acquired a cult following. He also wrote and directed *Snack Shack* (2024), a semi-autobiographical coming-of-age comedy filmed in his Nebraska hometown. The personal material matters to our view of him: his interest in small-town life has roots in his own experience, rather than simply offering somewhere to set a story.

Gallner's presence in both *Dinner in America* and *Carolina Caroline* provides a useful link between those phases. Rehmeier's recurring collaborators also include cinematographer Jean-Philippe Bernier, with whom he has made three films. Across the changes of genre, misfits in small-town and suburban America remain a recurring concern. That gives us a more useful way of approaching his work than expecting another horror film, or another comedy, merely because he has made one before.

In *Carolina Caroline*, the sincerity is particularly welcome because the lovers-on-the-run story gives us so much we already recognise. We do not need every crime romance to reinvent the form, but we do need the relationship to justify another journey through it. Weaving and Gallner supply that reason; our enthusiasm is more qualified when the film asks them to carry its heavier drama. Start here for the lovers, provided a familiar crime story will not spoil the evening.

## Biography

Adam Carter Rehmeier (born 5 August 1976) is an American film director, writer and cinematographer. He grew up in Nebraska City, Nebraska, the son of District Judge Randall Rehmeier. As a teenager he worked at the snack shack at Steinhart Park Pool. He attended the University of Nebraska–Lincoln for two years before transferring to Columbia College Chicago, where he studied film with a concentration in cinematography. He began his career as a documentary camera operator on low-budget features and touring with the jam band Phish.

Rehmeier is known for the coming-of-age films *Dinner in America* (2020) and *Snack Shack* (2024), both of which he wrote and directed. He also directed *The Bunny Game* (2011) and the 2026 film *Carolina Caroline*. Earlier credits include second-unit direction on *Northfork* (2003) and assistant director work on *Stay Cool* (2011).

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, nebraskaexaminer.com, deadline.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Carolina Caroline* (2026), Fi1m 79, Director, Executive Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/carolina-caroline.md)

## Complete filmography (53)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Carolina Caroline* (2026), Director, Executive Producer — Fi1m 79, [page](https://film.one/film/carolina-caroline.md)
- *Snack Shack* (2024), Director, Writer, Executive Producer
- *Dinner in America* (2020), Writer, Director, Editor, Music
- *Land Grab* (2016), Co-Producer, Editor
- *Mel Brooks: Live at the Geffen* (2015), Camera Operator
- *Big Sur* (2013), Assistant Director, Documentation & Support
- *Jonas* (2013), Director, Director of Photography, Adaptation, Screenplay, Producer, Editor
- *Mel Brooks Strikes Back!* (2012), Camera Operator
- *The Bunny Game* (2011), Story, Director, Director of Photography, Editor, Producer, Original Music Composer
- *Stay Cool* (2011), Assistant Director, Epk Camera Operator, Documentation & Support
- *Mel Brooks and Dick Cavett Together Again* (2011), Camera Operator
- *The Smell of Success* (2011), Assistant Director, Documentation & Support
- *Deep Currents: Making 'A River Runs Through It'* (2009), Camera Operator
- *Slimer Mode* (2009), Camera Operator
- *My Horizon* (2009), Second Assistant Director
- *The Blackfoot Challenge: Rescuing a River* (2009), Camera Operator
- *1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year* (2009), Camera Operator
- *Rogue Male: The Making of 'Man Hunt'* (2009), Camera Operator
- *Warner at War* (2008), Camera Operator
- *In the Beginning: Quo Vadis and the Genesis of the Biblical Epic* (2008), Camera Operator
- *Frank in the Fifties* (2008), Camera Operator
- *Revolution: Animating Ex Machina* (2008), Camera Operator
- *Small Town, Big Picture: The Story of 'Some Came Running'* (2008), Camera Operator
- *Shoot Up/Shoot Out: The Story Behind 'The Man with the Golden Arm'* (2008), Camera Operator
- *Inside Norad: Cold War Fortress* (2008), Camera Operator
- *Fednet Mode* (2008), Camera Operator
- *Masters of Magic: The World of Chandu* (2008), Camera Operator
- *Mel Blanc: The Man of a Thousand Voices* (2008), Camera Operator
- *Public Enemies: The Golden Age of the Gangster Film* (2008), Camera Operator
- *He Who Made Monsters: The Life and Art of Jack Pierce* (2008), Camera Operator
- *Out of the Inkwell: The Fleischer Story* (2008), Camera Operator
- *Drawn for Glory: Animation's Triumph at the Oscars* (2008), Camera Operator
- *Inside 'The Apartment'* (2008), Camera Operator
- *Kingdom: Elvis in Vegas* (2007), Camera Operator
- *The Tragic Mask: The Laird Cregar Story* (2007), Camera Operator
- *Concerto Macabre: The Films of John Brahm* (2007), Camera Operator
- *I Yam What I Yam: The Story of Popeye the Sailor* (2007), Camera Operator
- *The Filthy Thirteen: Real Stories from Behind the Lines* (2006), Camera Operator
- *Shadows of Suspense* (2006), Camera Operator
- *The Colonel and the King* (2006), Camera Operator
- *Return of the Thundering Herd: The Story That Inspired 'We Are Marshall'* (2006), Camera Operator
- *Job 7:10* (2004), Gaffer
- *I Love Your Work* (2003), Second Unit Director
- *Phish: IT* (2003), Camera Operator
- *Northfork* (2003), Second Unit Director
- *Shut-Eye* (2003), Director of Photography
- *Watch* (2002), Director of Photography
- *Urban Ground Squirrels* (2002), as Paranoid Willy · Director of Photography
- *Henry and Marvin* (2001), Director, Screenplay
- *Seeker*, Director
- *Do Robots Run Red Lights?*, Director of Photography, Producer, Editor
- *Elegy for an American Dream*, Director, Director of Photography, Editor, Producer
- *A Bobby Thing*, Director, Writer

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