Ray Beentjes Sound Designer

Ray began his career as a sound recordist for the Natural History Unit. Over seventeen years he’s worked on a huge number of television series and over twenty five feature films in a variety of roles including production sound recording, dialogue editing and sound design.

In 1994 he won Best Soundtrack in the NZ Film Awards for “Once Were Warriors”. More recently he was a member of the 2003 Academy Award winning Sound Post Production team of “The Lord of the Rings:The Two Towers”, and the 2006 Academy Award winning Sound Post Production team of “King Kong”.

Under the aegis of his new company Outpost, Ray is currently involved in several feature projects in Wellington, including the Korea/NZ/US film “Laundry Warrior”.