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Burny Bos |
Producer
It all started in Haarlem 1944. Burny was born and grew up there, willy-nilly. Despite the damage track he left behind on the schools in the area, he finally left Haarlem with two diplomas and a child. He moved to Zeeland. Burny had become a schoolteacher, drawing master and father of Tamara. In Middelburg it was the hippy era and Burny ran a youth centre.
His unbriddled energy and creativity led him all the way from far out Zeeland to Hilversum where he would start making radioprogrammes. His children's programmes were strikingly humourous, committed and without moralism. Programmes like Radio Lawaaipapegaai and Ko de Boswachter (Ko the Forrester) chained hundreds of thousands kids to the radio.
The next step was the set up of a children's department for VPRO television. Many famous TVprogrammes were produced like Achterwerk in de Kast, Theo & Thea, Mrs. Ten Kate and the phenomenon of Sundaymorning television was established.
Meanwhile he also became a children's book author. Many titles saw the light and especially young children are his readers.
After some years at VPRO TV Burny started his own production company for television and features aimed at a family and youth audience: BosBros.
The release of The Flying Liftboy marked a turning point in Dutch filmhistory: it was the first time that Holland went to a national movie on a massive scale.
Burny's company philosophy "to make beautiful things with nice people" has turned BosBros into a company where people continue to work with the common goal: to deliver a quality product. Burny rather choses a nice life than bigger, richer, busier.
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