卡塔琳娜·里维莉丝（Katharina Rivilis），Born in Saint Petersburg, the former Soviet Union in 1985, she grew up in Darmstadt, Germany. After graduating with an acting degree from the Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf, she worked as an actor for both theatre and film. In 2012, she began a directing degree at the German Film and Television Academy Berlin (DFFB) where she made the two coming-of-age short films Ariana Forever! and Day X which have screened and won prizes at numerous international festivals. The latter was also nominated for the 2021 Student Academy Awards. She is currently working on her debut feature film.