Kim Buikema is a Midwest-born, Brooklyn-based audio producer, media maker, and screenwriter. Previously, she worked as a music, media studies, and yoga teacher in London before earning a master's degree in clinical mental health counseling in Chicago. Music and mental health are often topics in her work, and Kim loves to experiment with both aural and visual storytelling. She is currently pursuing an MFA in Integrated Media Arts at Hunter College, City University New York (CUNY).

 

Kim most recently worked as an associate producer on More Than A Feeling, a production of the Ten Percent Happier company, where she also served as associate producer on the flagship Ten Percent Happier podcast. She also freelanced as an associate producer on Lights Out: The Loss of a Lifetime with Campside Media, Pineapple Street Studios/BuzzFeed News's Suspicious Activity: Inside the FinCEN Files, and worked with the team at The Insightful Leader podcast as a scriptwriter and tape-cutter. Currently, she's working with the iDeas Lab at the Berman Institute of Bioethics, Johns Hopkins University.

 

Kim's short script, "The North Bridge," was  a semifinalist for the 2021 Chicago Screenplay Awards and was selected for Cascadia International Women's Film Festival's Script Studio of the same year. Her feature length script An Extraordinary Man was a 2019 semifinalist for The Writers Lab. “Lag - 4 - E,” a recent audio experiment combining 12-tone music composition techniques with spoken word was an official select for On-Air Fest 2021 and “Voice Fugue,” another experiment in musicalizing spoken phrases, aired on Viennese radio station Orange 94.0, on the show female:pressure.

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Kim also credits herself as a teacher spreading the glorious gospel of media production and storytelling. In London, alongside teaching music, she created and ran a secondary school media studies department as well as an award-winning after-school filmmaking club. She has also taught media production to undergraduate students, and currently works with undergraduate film & media students as an academic advisor at Hunter College, CUNY.

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Kim holds dual citizenship for the US and the UK.