About Us

Uwe Dierks and Thomas Grube collaborate to realise their vision of creative films and their successful distribution.

Andrea Thilo, Uwe Dierks and Thomas Grube founded BOOMTOWN MEDIA in Berlin in 1999. Since then, the company has produced award-winning documentaries for television and cinema, international co-productions, independent and commissioned works. Our most successful theatrical films to date include RHYTHM IS iT! and TRIP TO ASiA.

Our partners are international broadcasters such as the BBC, SBS, TVP or WOWOW and national public broadcasters such as ARD, ZDF, Arte, RBB, BR, NDR, WDR as well as film funding bodies such as FFA, DFFF, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg and BKM.  

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 Society, 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 works for the company as a writer, director and producer.

Here we present some of our projects.