The Boston Audio Engineering Society, Women in Film & Video & The New England Institute of Art Present
Ann Kroeber
“Capturing Unusual Sounds For Movies & Video Games”



Tuesday March 10th, 7pm
The Brattle Theater
40 Brattle St Cambridge, MA 02138
Directions are here
Admission $5 at the door

Learn the secrets behind the sound to some of the most famous movies of the past 30 years.  Ann shares her techniques and philosophies of creating sound to support the visual medium.

Ann Kroeber began her film career at the Office of Radio and Television at the United Nations. She moved to San Francisco in 1978 and was hired there by Alan Splet to record sound effects for the Black Stallion, which won an Academy Award for Sound Fx Editing. Kroeber was a Sound Fx Recordist and later Fx Editor with Splet on such films as The Elephant Man, Dune, Never Cry Wolf, Wind, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Mountains of the Moon, At Play in the Fields of the Lord, Henry and June, The Mosquito Coast, and Dead Poets Society.  She was the Production Mixer on Blue Velvet. 

She has recorded and or provided sound effects for such films as The Star Wars Trilogy, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of The King, Pirates of the Caribbean, The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, Gladiator, The English Patient, The Horse Whisperer, A Bug’s Life, K-19, Polar Express, The Village, Hidalgo, Indiana Jones and The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, etc. She was Sound Designer on Carroll Ballard’s Duma and Fx Editor on his Fly Away Home as well as Affonso Arau’s Zapata. She has also provided sound effects and sound designed for a number of popular games, including “Lord of the Rings”, “Hellgate London” and the recently released “Spore”.