About Us
Thomas Grube and Uwe Dierks
Uwe Dierks and Thomas Grube founded Boomtown Media in Berlin in 1999, together with former partner Andrea Thilo. Since then, we produce award-winning films for television and cinema, international co-productions, independent and commissioned works. The most successful cinema documentaries include RHYTHM IS iT! and TRIP TO ASiA. In 2006, we founded the worldsales company Boomtown Media International.
Our production partners are international TV broadcasters and platforms such as the BBC, SBS, TVP or WOWOW and national public broadcasters and platforms such as ARD, ZDF, Arte, RBB, NDR, WDR, BR, film funding bodies such as FFA, FFF, DFFF, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg and BKM as well as co-production partners worldwide.
We also cooperate with foundations such as the Bertelsmann Foundation, the Porticus Foundation, the Hilti Foundation, the Deutsche Bank Cultural Foundation and the Leonard Bernstein Foundation, as well as with cultural institutions such as the German Choral Association, the Jewish Museum Berlin, the Beethovenhaus Bonn, the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, the International Lied Center Heidelberg and the Deutsche Guggenheim.
At Boomtown Media, Uwe Dierks is responsible as producer and managing director, Thomas Grube as writer, director and producer.