Since 1980, the founding partners have been involved, in various roles, in the development and production of numerous film and TV projects, including the fiction films, AU PAIR (USA title: MY DAUGHTER'S KEEPER)(1993, MIRAMAX), DUNE SURFER (1989, MOVIWORLD), CITY WOLF (1987, ATLAS INTERNATIONAL) and CLIFF HANGER (1992), as well as two TV series and many documentary and educational films.

BUZZMEDIA NETWORK recently completed the full-length documentary, BETWEEN THE DEVIL AND THE DEEP, with funding from the Dutch Film Fund, the Flemish Audiovisual Fund, the Cobo Fund and Dutch broadcaster, Evangelische Omroep (EO). Distributor Amstelfilm will release the film in art-house cinemas in the Benelux in June 2015, followed by a TV broadcast by EO later this year. We are currently developing a new slate of fiction and documentary projects.

About Us

Michèle Aimé Michèle Aimé started her career in film peoduction in 1979 on a series of Anti-Apartheid films based on Nadine Gordimer’s short stories, including COUNTRY LOVERS, directed by celebrated South African filmmaker, Manie van Rensburg. In 1981, she reunited with Marnie van Rensburg on the award-winning television drama series, ‘Verspeelde Lente’ (SABC, 1982). Between 1981 & 1990, Michèle produced numerous social documentaries, including, ‘A Man no Less’ (paraplegics in Soweto) and ‘The Word for Soweto’ (about tribal and Western religion in Soweto) and many hours of educational TV. In 2006, Michèle produced the award-winning feature film, OVERLEVEN (NL 2007) for BUZZMEDIA NETWORK. This was followed in 2009 by a second award-winning Dutch feature film, SCHOFT. BUZZMEDIA NETWORK has just finished post-production on a feature length narrative documentary ‘BETWEEN THE DEVIL AND THE DEEP’ (major national theatrical release, the Netherlands, in June 2015). 2018 MY SOUL DRIFTS LIGHT UPON A SEA OF TREES (92-minute documentary NL) completed in and premiered at IDFA November 2018 (Official Selection in the category Best Dutch Documentary 2018).

Heinrich Dahms Heinrich Dahms graduated with a BA Honours in Political Philosophy and Film, and has written, directed and/or produced commercials, documentaries, TV dramas and five features films since 1980, including: CITY WOLF (Atlas International, 1987), DUNE SURFER (Moviworld, 1989), MY DAUGHTER'S KEEPER (aka AU PAIR) (Miramax, 1993), and two award-winning Dutch language feature films, OVERLEVEN (BUZZMEDIA, NL 2007) and SCHOFT (BUZZMEDIA, NL 2009). Dahms' most recent long format works are two feature-length narrative documentaries: BETWEEN THE DEVIL AND THE DEEP (BUZZMEDIA, NL 2015), which was released in 2015 and his most recent documentary, MY SOUL DRIFTS LIGHT UPON A SEA OF TREES (BUZZMEDIA, NL 2018), which premiered at the IDFA Documentary Film Festival in November 2018 (Official Selection in the category Best Dutch Documentary). Dahms is currently developing a new fiction project, the screenplay of which has been completed with funding from the Netherlands Film Fund.

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