Andre Reeder is a freelance filmmaker and social worker in Bijlmermeer, in the southeast part of Amsterdam. He was born in 1954 in the village of Moengo in Suriname. From 1972 till 1992 he was an activist in the political/cultural/social organisation LOSON (later called Sawo) of the Surinamese community in the Netherlands.

From 1992 till 2002 he was an activist in the black and migrant LGBT movement Strange Fruit in Amsterdam. He finished the Dutch Film & Television Academy in Amsterdam in 1982. Several of his films can be found on Youtube (enter Andre Reeder). For almost two decades and up till now he is an employed advisor and supporter of citizens initiatives in Bijmermeer, Amsterdam Southeast.