Jennifer Reeder is a director, screenwriter, video artist and lecturer from Chicago. Alongside her training as a ballet dancer, she began her artistic career with the trilogy The White Trash Girl, shot on VHS, in which she played the lead role. In her short films, she has devoted herself to the world of young girls, making her own mark in the teen-film genre in the process. Her films have been shown around the world, both in fine art contexts and at prestigious film festivals. Reeder's past Berlinale highlights include premieres of Blood Below the Skin (Berlinale Shorts 2015), Crystal Lake (Generation 2016), her first feature-length film Knives and Skin (Generation 2019) and the horror-thriller Perpetrator (Panorama 2023).