Hansel is an award-winning fiction and documentary filmmaker. He loves working on accessible, cinematic stories that are hopeful, multi-tonal and focus on the nuanced, messy lives we all lead.
Winner of the Dreammakers competition as chosen by Oscar-nomated director J.A. Bayona.
2023 winner of the Emerging Voices Foundation for a short film he co-created with Ieuan Coombs.
Shortlisted for the BFI NETWORK funding in 2023 for the short film Homing.
Featured on the Short Films Big Questions podcast.
Working with Ventureland on King Putt, a documentary about the world champion of crazy golf.
Hansel is member of the Kusp and is currently part of the Directors UK Inspire scheme.
As chosen by judges including Robbie Ryan and Asif Kapadia Hansel was one of the winners of the Straight 8 competition where his team's super 8 film Horse Play was screened at Cannes Film festival.