Hans Galesloot

Hans Galesloot was born in 1953 and raised in The Netherlands. When he was eighteen years old, he went to work as a film-cutter for Chanowski Productions in the Netherlands. He subsequently became a working student, studied social sciences at the University of Amsterdam, where he majored on a thesis about 'Mass psychology and the rise of German fascism'. During these years he edited the Werktheater film 'Toestanden' and 'Camping' as an assistant of director Thijs Chanowski. After finishing his academic years he went on to study screen writing at Berkeley, San Franscisco and the American Film Institute, Los Angeles, in the early eighties. He returned to Holland and created several episodic series. One series became a Dutch classic. During the nineties he worked in Germany as creator and writer of several long-running episodic series. Since 2000 he worked as an advisor for the Dutch Filmfund and started writing feature screenplays and novels.