Director, TWC Films

Hans has a natural gift for finding the true voice of an idea, and making it sing. His ability to transform the essence of a concept into an emotionally resonant vehicle started when he was a Norwegian exchange student at Emerson College in Boston where he studied Film and Theater Direction.

After graduating, Hans began working for New York-based GIRALDI, owned by legendary filmmaker Bob Giraldi and specializing in music videos and commercials for artists as prominent and varied as Michael Jackson and Pat Benatar. Having mastered his technique at GIRALDI, Hans returned to his hometown in Oslo Norway, and opened the doors to his own production house, The Moland Film Company. Within a few years, it quickly became the largest and most successful production house in all of Scandinavia.

Hans rides on a powerful wave of achievement, having earned a host of various commercial honors in numerous festivals and contests including Cannes, Eurobest, Clio, Epica, I.B.F. and Mobius, just to name a few. No stranger to success or risk taking, Hans decided to try his hand in feature film direction and found accomplishment there as well.

A few of the highly popular films that Hans has directed are The Beautiful Country (2004), United We Stand (2002), Zero Kelvin (1995), and The Last Lieutenant (1993). His latest film endeavor, A Somewhat Gentle Man (2010), had its world premiere February 15 at the Berlin Film Festival; the film took home the Audience Award at that fest, underscoring the director's unique aptitude for provocative storytelling. Peter Cowie, international film historian, has called Hans "the Ridley Scott of Norway," succinctly illustrating that he is an accomplished, talented master of both visual and narrative architecture.