Award Show & Conference
The Tenth Anniversary Edition of BMIM 2020 Moves Online

Bram van Alphen is an Amsterdam based director strongly influenced by his background in design. His advertisement work won him prizes at the ADCN and international festivals.

Rogier de Bruin is creative director and co-founder of HERC, the agency. He is one of the most awarded creatives in the industry, and responsible for much talked-about campaigns for G-Star, Tele2, Sportlife and YoungCapital (winner of Best Music in Advertising 2016).

Bart Claessen is a Dutch EDM artist, producer, composer and DJ. Responsible for world hits as Barthezz in the early zeroes, he now also produces music for TV and movies.

Ruben is head of strategy & concepts at Wefilm and responsible for its strategic and creative work for brands. With a background in PR-strategy and creativity his roots lay strongly in creating content and campaigns that can fly organically.

Niek Eijsbouts is creative director at international creative agency SuperHeroes Amsterdam. He created award-winning campaigns, short films and activations, including The Motorcycle Symphony, raising awareness for The Distinguished Gentleman’s Ride in 2019.

Aside from leading one of the premier Dutch mediamusic & sounddesign boutique studios, composer, arranger and producer Stephen Emmer is the initiator of Buma Music in Motion.

Danielle Guirguis started her career as an Assistant Producer on Paul Verhoeven’s Zwartboek. She’s currently the CEO of her own film production company Smarthouse Films that produces crossover feature films and arthouse commercials.

Ralph de Haan works as a creative producer and production consultant. He is also cofounder of Artillerie.tv, a creative collective developing culturally relevant films and photography projects.

Thijs Havens is a musician / composer (Tice Fires, The Vagary) and musical curator for Filmmuseum EYE for whom he also composes & performs new scores for (silent) films.

Diederick Hillenius is the owner of Selmore, a creative communication agency focused on impactful 360 campaign ideas.

With his Amsterdam based production company Johnnywood Productions Jon Karthaus co-produced his first feature film debut called 'Homies', wrote and directed his second film 'Bella Donna's' as well as the multicultural blockbuster ‘Bon Bini Holland II’.

Gijs Knol is an independent composer and music producer from The Netherlands. In 2019 he won the Buma Music In Motion New Talent Award for his compositions for the Anne Frank Stichting.

Rens Machielse is the former director of HKU Music and Technology. Rens composed music for over three hundred theatre plays, TV series, films, documentaries, commercials and animations.

Karolien Mazereeuw is Head of Sync Benelux at Sony/ATV Music Publishing. She has worked on many global advertising campaigns for Heineken, Qatar and DHL as well as many film and TV projects.

Since 2007 Neeltje Mooring runs her company SOLID as a rock and operates internationally as an independent publisher, sync agent and music supervisor. Her core business is bringing music and images together.

Susanne van Nierop is editor-in-chief of Adformatie, the leading Dutch platform in marketing, media and advertising. Next to her study Communication Science she started working at a financial publisher where she got contaminated with the news- and writing virus. At Adformatie she found the perfect mix of journalism and the world of marketing & communication. She is also board member of the SPIN Awards, the awards for innovative work in digital creativity.

Guy Van Nueten is a Belgian session musician, solo pianist and composer for theatre, dance and film. So far he has composed for 22 stage productions, 8 feature films and has released 8 studio albums.

Janice Pierre graduated at the Dutch Film Academy. She directed several high acclaimed tv movies, television drama/comedy shows and commercials. She made her feature debut with the romantic comedy ‘Hartenstrijd’.

Joyce Roodnat has been writing for NRC Handelsblad since 1979. She started as a film critic, became head of the Art editorials department and finally a cultural commenter. Every Thursday she writes a 'critic’s notebook' in the culture supplement.

Martijn Schimmer has been composing music for over 20 years. Today he leads a team of 8 dedicated audio producers at award-winning music production company SMP Amsterdam, producing tunes round the clock for TV, movies and Commercials.

Paul Stevelmans has been editor-in-chief of the online film music magazine Score since 2004. Since 2008 he has been a member of The International Film Music Critics Association.

Maarten Wijdenes is a project manager Production Screen NL at the Netherlands Film Fund, the national agency responsible for supporting film production and film-related activities in the Netherlands.

Steve Willaert is a Belgian composer, arranger, musician and producer. Recent work includes Hollands Hoop, Als de dijken breken and Urbanus: De vuilnisheld.

Kaja Wolffers is Creative Director and Producer at NL Film. He is responsible for such titles as Kasper en de Kerstengelen, De Zaak Menten and De regels van Floor.

Bob Zimmerman has composed and arranged for numerour theatre, television and film productions. His works include films De Avonden and Tirza and documentaries De Nieuwe Wildernis and Holland, natuur in de Delta.