Past activities
2025

Open Call Matchmaking IDFAcademy 2025
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

BMIM x NFF 2025
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

Open Call BMIM x WSA Film Music Days: Third Character
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

Open Call NFF Script & Score 2025
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

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

BMIM Special 2025
On May 28 we will organize BMIM Special for the third time. The networking and knowledge event for everyone working in music media.

MIMAs 2025
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

Matchmaking BMIM x QISSA Lab 2025
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

BMIM x MCM: Third Character 2025
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

Open call BMIM x QISSA Lab 2025
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

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

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