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Jennifer Reeder (born 1971, Ohio) is an American artist, filmmaker, and screenwriter. Her short film A Million Miles Away (2014) was nominated for a Tiger Award for Short Films at the International Film Festival Rotterdam [1] and screened at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival in the U.S. Short Narrative Films category.
Jennifer Reeder constructs personal fiction films about relationships, trauma and coping. Her award-winning narratives are innovative and borrow from a range of forms including after school specials, amateur music videos and magical realism.
Mar 22, 2022 · Jennifer Reeder ‘s bonafides as a horror director — particularly one attuned to the terrifying travails of the female teenage experience, a la her breakout “Knives and Skin” — are...
Sep 6, 2023 · Prolific feminist filmmaker Jennifer Reeder first picked up a camera while studying performance at Ohio State University. While attending the Art Institute of Chicago in the 1990s, she began creating dozens of DYI video art with a distinctly riot grrrl-bent.
Jennifer Reeder is known for Knives and Skin (2019), V/H/S/94 (2021) and Signature Move (2017).
In the world of Jennifer Reeder’s feminist genre films, dead girls sing, blood has agency and teenagers get more than car keys on their birthday. Take Jonquil ‘Jonny’ Baptiste (Kiah McKirnan), the rebellious mixed-race high schooler who leads Reeder’s latest, Perpetrator.
Sep 1, 2023 · Perpetrator director Jennifer Reeder discusses how she turns empathy into a superpower in her new horror movie.
