Past activities

2025

24 Sep - 02 Oct

Open Call Matchmaking IDFAcademy 2025

Open call

Are you ready to expand your network in the documentary world? BMIM is proud to announce our partnership with IDFAcademy again this year. We offer six spots to emerging composers to participate in a special networking program. Are you a film composer at the beginning of your career? Then you can apply for this open

28 - 30 Sep

BMIM x NFF 2025

Event - Stadsschouwburg, Utrecht, Netherlands

BMIM will be part of the Netherlands Film Festival once again! With special meet-ups, inspiring panels, and new opportunities for composers to connect with directors, editors, actors, and other creatives. From coffee with Carlos Rafael Rivera (The Queen’s Gambit) to crew tables and the Talent Square… This is BMIM at NFF 2025. Tickets NFFWe’re giving

05 Jun - 07 Aug

Open Call BMIM x WSA Film Music Days: Third Character

Open call - WSA Film Music Days, Ghent (BE)

For the third consecutive time, we are working together on the Third Character project. Are you interested in further expanding your international network? And do you enjoy getting in touch with duos of producers and directors who are working on a film project? Registration for composers for the Third Character project at the WSA Film

16 Jun - 01 Aug

Open Call NFF Script & Score 2025

Open call - NFF, Utrecht

Buma Music in Motion and the Netherlands Film Festival (NFF) are committed to creating connections between filmmakers and the music sector. In the closed programme Script & Score, composers and filmmakers get to know each other’s work. As a composer, you create music demos based on the selected film projects in development. Composers can present

Dekmantel Conference 2024
31 Jul

BMIM presents Hardcore in Motion W/ Holly Dicker, Mike Redman & Dennis van Rijswijk

Panel - 17:30 - 18:30 | Galerij, Tolhuistuin, Amsterdam (NL)

BMIM is once again collaborating with Dekmantel: this year we are organizing Harmony of Hardcore with speakers Holly Dicker, Mike Redman & Dennis van Rijswijk.

28 May

BMIM Special 2025

Event - Hotel Arena, Amsterdam

On May 28 we will organize BMIM Special for the third time. The networking and knowledge event for everyone working in music media.

16 Apr

MIMAs 2025

Event - KIT Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam

The MIMAs is the annual award show where we celebrate the very best music in film, television, radio, documentary, advertising and other media. Each year, composers, sync agents and media professionals can send it their best work of the previous year for a chance to win a MIMA (nomination). The nominees and winners are chosen

28 Mar

Matchmaking BMIM x QISSA Lab 2025

Matchmaking - Maca Amsterdam

For composers who would like to contribute to an inclusive film and television world, we are organizing a matchmaking at and in collaboration with QISSA Lab, formerly known as Generation Inclusion. From February 18 to March 10, composers could register for this program. During this matchmaking session, creatives from underrepresented groups and composers will discuss

27 - 28 Mar

BMIM x MCM: Third Character 2025

Matchmaking - MCM, Marseille (FR)

As a reference to Federico Fellini, who used to call film music the “Third Character”, this project aims to facilitate meetings between film composers, directors and producers. Selected composers are invited to meet duos of producers and directors working on a film project in development during the Festival international Music & Cinema Marseille (MCM). From

18 Feb - 10 Mar

Open call BMIM x QISSA Lab 2025

Open call - Maca Amsterdam

Are you a composer looking for new makers in the Dutch film and television industry? Then this matchmaking is perfect for you! Together with QISSA (formerly known as Generation Inclusion) we organize an afternoon where you can meet creatives from underrepresented groups and talk about their upcoming projects. Our collaboration consists of a matchmaking session

01 Nov - 19 Jan

Apply now for the MIMA’s 2025

Open call

The MIMA's 2025 are just around the corner. Time to apply! How? Read all about it here.

16 Jan

Meet the Music Supervisors & Sync Reps (One-on-One Sessions)

Matchmaking - ESNS: Grote zaal, Oosterpoort (Groningen)

Would the global success of The Last of Us have been the same without its haunting score by Gustavo Santaolalla and the 1987 Depeche Mode classic ’Never Let Me Down Again’? Or think about how Wednesday skyrocketed The Cramps’ ‘Goo Goo Muck’ to cult status decades after its release. And we’re already looking forward to the third season of The White