Hans Fjellestad

Hans Fjellestad
Born	May 2, 1968
Residence	Los Angeles, California
Occupation	Pianist, music composer documentary filmmaker

Hans Fjellestad (born 1968) is a pianist, music composer and documentary filmmaker based in Los Angeles, California.

Hans Jorgen Fjellestad was born on May 02, 1968. He studied music composition and improvisation at University of California, San Diego in San Diego, California.

A classically trained pianist, he has composed for film, video, theater, dance and has toured with his music and film work throughout the U.S., Canada, Europe, Australia, Japan, Taiwan, New Zealand, Mexico, and Brazil.

In 2002, he directed his first documentary film, Frontier Life. It explores Tijuana, Mexico, with a focus on the local underground electronic music scene. Two years later, in 2004, he directed Moog, the feature-length documentary about music synthesizer pioneer Robert Moog, which premiered at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. In 2009, he was the writer and producer for the 2009 music documentary The Heart Is A Drum Machine with Juliette Lewis, Elijah Wood, John Frusciante, and Jason Schwartzman. In 2010, he released a film about Depression-era life and art, When The World Breaks, which premiered at the 2010 Doc Edge Festival in New Zealand.

In 2012, he directed the documentary Sunset Strip, which premiered at SXSW 2012 and was broadcast on Showtime. The Hollywood Reporter describes it as "entertaining almost to a fault, this color-packed doc boasts a lifetime's worth of glamour and sleaze" featuring Mickey Rourke, Johnny Depp, Ozzy Osbourne, Keanu Reeves, Sofia Coppola, Hugh Hefner, Sharon Stone, Courtney Love, among others.

He co-founded the Trummerflora Collective, and has worked as a curator/producer for the international art initiative, inSite 05. He was artist-in-residence at the Steve Allen Theater in Hollywood 2008-2011, curating and hosting the monthly live music series ResBox.

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