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Hans van Helden

Hans van Helden joined Netlfix in Q2 2018 as Director Post Production, building and leading the local Post Management teams who oversee all of the Netflix Original and Licensed productions across Europe, Africa and the Middle East (EMEA). Currently, Hans oversees Post, VFX, Music and Technolgy across the EMEA region.
Hans has over 23 years of hands-on experience in post-production and visual effects. After starting as Film Editor he moved on to Post Production Supervision and later specialized further to become VFX Supervisor, most notably collaborating with directors Paul Verhoeven and Brian De Palma. Having managed culturally different crews and clients around the globe on more than 125 feature films and TV drama series has given Hans the edge up on anticipating pitfalls from the very beginning. In January 2011 Hans joined post production & visual effects studio Filmmore Amsterdam to set up their Brussels facility as Managing Director. In 2015 he moved on to professionalize and grow Filmmore’s VFX department as Head of VFX .

Hans is an active member of the Visual Effects Society (VES); Co-founder and Chairman of the Dutch Association of Visual Effects Professionals (NVX); Member of the European Film Academy (EFA); member of the Dutch Academy for Film (DAFF); member of the advisory board to the Dutch Film and Television Academy (NFA).

As a consequence of his frequent work on international co-productions, Hans has lived and worked in different cities all over the world and holds dual passports, both for the EC and the USA.