Hans Treffers graduated in 1984 at the Dutch Film School in Amsterdam, majoring in Scriptwriting, Directing and Editing. His graduation project, a short fiction film was broadcasted by the Dutch National Network (NPS) and selected as the official Dutch Entry for the European festival of student films in Munich.

Having worked as a film editor for various Television networks and on a number of Dutch features he specialized as an editor of commercials and promotional films. He also started directing and producing these productions. He produced a series of commercials and corporate films for clients such as Philips, Ahold, KLM, KPN, ABN-AMRO, McDonalds and the New Straits Times. Several productions received International awards and a commercial for KLM was awarded best commercial of the year in the Netherlands.

In addition to these promotional programmes, he produced several international documentaries. He directed some episodes of the award-winning documentary series "Great Castles of Europe" for Discovery Channel, and produced, directed and edited a 13-part documentary series for RTM in Malaysia: “For a bowl of Rice”. Fiction also kept his interest however and for John de Mol productions, he directed a number of television soaps.

During the last decennium, he managed the production/post production department of the Royal Dutch Army and Navy and several of these programmes received International awards, the most prestigious of which was the "Grand Award" at the festival of Rome. For several years he took up the management of a production/post production house in Kuala Lumpur/Singapore where he produced documentary series and commercials for this region.

In addition to the development of a number of documentaries, a new feature “End of the Line”  is currently being developed as a co-production between the Oscar nominated production company from Amsterdam, ID Film (Anton Smit/Hanneke Niens), and the English production company Parallax Films (Sally Hibbin/Ken Loach) from London.

1984-1987    Freelance Editor TV, Features  & Commercials…

1984-2004    Director, Producer & Editor Commercials en Business communication For: Philips, KPN, McDonalds, ABN-AMRO, Royal Netherlands Army & Royal Navy.

1991-1992    Director TV drama series – For EndeMol Productions.

1993-1997       Producer, Director & Editor International TV Documentaries – For Discovery Channel, New Straits Times and RTM (Malaysia)

1998-2006    Manager Postproduction and Senior Editor – Media Centre, Royal Netherlands Army & navy.

2006-2008    Chief editor for John de Mol productions (TALPA) of several Dutch reality soaps.