Tuesday March 10th, 7p

Brattle Theater

40 Brattle StCambridge, MA 02138

Admission $5

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”.