Los Angeles filmmaker/musician Hans Fjellestad has produced and shot on location throughout the USA, Canada, Mexico, UK, Europe, Australia, Japan, Taiwan, Turkey, Afghanistan and Haiti filming hundreds of interviews and numerous concerts, live events and documentary film projects. His award-winning work has screened in theaters and festivals worldwide and on Netflix, Showtime, ABC, MTV, Sony Japan, Adult Swim, Amazon Prime, Documentary Channel, Arte, BBC, MTV, PBS.
Hans directed/produced the feature-length documentary films Sunset Strip (2012), Moog (2004), Radio Caroline (2018), Sounding the Space (2014), When the World Breaks (2010), Frontier Life (2002) and was writer/producer for The Heart is a Drum Machine (2009), M-ON! Monthly Icon: L’Arc-en-Ciel (2012), Rock Camp (2021) and cinematographer for American Clown (2025). His video production work also includes projects for Mode Records, Steinway, Titmouse, GLAAD, Health Corps Haiti, Community Corporation of Santa Monica, Rock and Roll Fantasy Camp, Not Real Art and California Roots Festival. He is lead producer at arts-oriented media production house Crewest Studio.
A classically trained pianist and electronic music composer/performer, Hans studied music at UCSD (BA in Music, 1993) and has composed original scores for theater, dance and film. He has recorded and performed extensively, appearing on over 50 albums and touring in over a dozen countries. He was artist-in-residence at the Steve Allen Theater in Hollywood 2008-2011, where he curated and hosted the live music series ResBox, and is a recording artist/partner at independent music label Accretions.
As faculty lecturer at UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music since 2015, Hans specializes in music supervision for visual media. He has also lectured at Columbia University, Amherst College, San Francisco Art Institute, McGill University, Institute of Contemporary Arts London, Centre for Contemporary Arts Glasgow, National Taiwan University, Yebisu Music Conference Tokyo, Mexico’s Centro Universitario de Estudios Cinematográficos, Universidad del Claustro de Sor Juana in Mexico City, Palomar College, Miami Art Central, Centro Cultural Tijuana and Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego.
