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| Michele Aime started her career in the film industry in 1980 on a series of anti-apartheid films based on stories by Nobel Prize-winning author, Nadine Gordimer. The films were directed by established South African directors.
After the Nadine Gordimer series, Michele worked on the award-winning TV drama series, 'Verspeelde Lente' (Manie van Rensburg, 1982). Between 1983 and 1990, she produced numerous social documentaries, including the documentary, 'A Man no Less' (paraplegics in Soweto) and 'The Word for Soweto' (the dialectics of tribal and Western religion in Soweto). In addition, she also produced many hours of educational TV in this period, much of which supplemented her passion for youth counselling.
In 1991, she left South Africa for Europe, and after spending two years on the Portuguese island, Sao Miguel, the Azores, she settled in the Netherlands with her family in 1993.
From 1993 to 2005, she was a partner in a pioneering Internet broadcasting start-up and also the owner of a successful language training company.
In 2006, Michele returned to the film industry to produce the multiple award-winning feature film, 'OVERLEVEN' (dir. Heinrich Dahms, NL 2007). She recently completed a new feature film, SCHOFT (Scum) (dir. Heinrich Dahms, NL 2009) as producer and is currently developing a new feature film and two theatrical documentaries.
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Heinrich Dahms holds a BA Honours in Political Philosophy and Film, and has been a writer, director and producer of feature films, documentaries, TV dramas and commercials since 1980. The following are a few of the feature films Dahms wrote and directed in this period: MY DAUGHTER'S KEEPER (aka AU PAIR) (Miramax, 1993), OVERLEVEN (NL 2007) and SCHOFT (Scum)(NL 2009). Currently developing a feature-length narrative documentary. A detailed biography is available at www.dahms.com.
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BUZZMEDIA NETWORK
BUZZMEDIA NETWORK was first established in Johannesburg, South Africa, in 1985, as Desert Pictures Ltd. Desert Pictures was responsible for the development and/or production of numerous works for cinema and TV, including dramas, documentaries, commercials and educational films. In 1996, the company was incorporated in The Netherlands as a private company with limited liability (BV) under its current name to develop an Internet broadcasting service with own and Venture Capital. In 2002, BUZZMEDIA NETWORK sold its interests in the Internet venture to focus exclusively on film development. Feature films developed by the company's partners include AU PAIR (USA title: MY DAUGHTER'S KEEPER)(1993, MIRAMAX), DUNE SURFER (1989, MOVIWORLD), CITY WOLF (1987, ATLAS INTERNATIONAL) and CLIFF HANGER (1992).
BUZZMEDIA NETWORK has meanwhile produced two Dutch-language feature films: The multiple award-winning coming-of-age drama, OVERLEVEN (NL 2007, 52 mins) and our new film, SCHOFT (SCUM) (NL 2009, 92 mins), which deals with the themes of random violence and racism. Currently in development are two feature-length documentaries and a fiction film.
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