Andreas Halskov
- Adjunct Assistant Professor of Screenwriting
Andreas Halskov is a prolific writer. He has penned numerous articles and books on film and television, including a monograph on David Lynch and two interview-based English books on Twin Peaks and modern television drama. In 2025, he will publish a new book called Directed by Milos Forman: An Oral History of His Life and Films, this book is based on interviews with more than 100 of Forman’s closest friends, relatives, and collaborators. Finally, he is an expert and staff writer for the biggest Scandinavian encyclopedia (Den Store Danske), and he works as an editor of the scholarly film journal 16:9.
Andreas is also an external lecturer at Aarhus University in Denmark. He has taught courses on Film History, Film Theory, and Media Studies for many years, and currently, he teaches two international electives on Film Culture and Global Perspectives on Cultural and Creative Industries. Apart from lecturing at Aarhus University, he has also taught at The University of Copenhagen and Aalborg University, and he has been a recurring guest lecturer at various institutions, including Newcastle University, DIIS, and the Screenwriting Line at The University of Southern Denmark. He also organizes and teaches courses at Folkeuniversitetet, including lengthy and quite popular courses on Twin Peaks and “Masters of Cinema.”
He has co-organized various TV industry seminars and festivals (including the TV festival Aarhus Series). He also works as a programmer and curator at the two biggest arthouse theaters in Denmark (Cinemateket and Øst for Paradis), introducing films and organizing comprehensive retrospectives of the films of David Lynch. Milos Forman, and Hal Ashby.