Kim Buikema is a Midwest-born, Brooklyn-based audio producer, filmmaker, and screenwriter.  Before pivoting to her current career, Kim worked as a music teacher in London, where she also created and led a secondary school media studies department and established an award-winning after-school filmmaking club. Kim later earned a master’s degree in clinical mental health counseling in Chicago. Currently, she is pursuing an MFA in Integrated Media Arts at Hunter College, City University of New York (CUNY), where she teaches undergraduate film and media courses and previously served as a student advisor. Kim holds dual citizenship for the US and the UK.

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Kim's experimental film "Voice Fugue" was selected for the 2024 Alternating Currents Film Festival and her short script, "The North Bridge," was selected for Cascadia International Women's Film Festival's Script Studio in 2021. 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.