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Jim LeBrecht
Hartsdale, New York, USA
Sound Designer and Mixer James LeBrecht is a well-known film and theatre sound designer and mixer, author, producer, and disability rights activist. He is the founder of Berkeley…
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Sound Designer and Mixer James LeBrecht is a well-known film and theatre sound designer and mixer, author, producer, and disability rights activist. He is the founder of Berkeley Sound Artists (BSA), an audio post-production house. BSA was the sound house for The Blood of Yingzhou District, the 2006 Academy Award® recipient for short documentary. Other credits include The Force, Unrest, The Waiting Room, The Devil and Daniel Johnston, Daughter From Danang, We Were Here, Bang: the Bert Berns Story, and Audrie & Daisy. Jim's work as an advocate for the rights of people with disabilities began in high school as a member of Disabled in Action, a pioneering disability rights group. He helped found the Disabled Students Union at UC San Diego in the mid-1970s. Currently, LeBrecht is a board member at the Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund, a leading organization working for the rights of the disabled through education, legislation, and litigation.
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2026
The Haunting of Pennhurst
Movie Executive Producer
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2026
Kids Like Me
Movie Executive Producer
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2025
Change, Not Charity: The Americans with Disabilities Act
Movie Director
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2025
The Tallest Dwarf
Movie Sound Designer
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2025
Deaf President Now!
Movie Sound Re-Recording Mixer
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2024
Patrice: The Movie
Movie Executive Producer
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2024
The Ride Ahead
Movie Executive Producer
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2023
Fire Through Dry Grass
Movie Executive Producer
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2021
All These Sons
Movie Sound Designer
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2020
Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution
Movie Self
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2018
I Am Maris: Portrait of a Young Yogi
Movie Sound Mixer
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2018
Minding the Gap
Movie Sound Re-Recording Mixer
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2018
Exit Music
Movie Sound
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2017
Unrest
Movie Additional Sound Re-Recording Mixer
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2016
Extremis
Movie Sound Designer
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2016
My Love Affair with the Brain
Movie Sound Mixer
More credits
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2014
Finding the Gold Within
Movie Supervising Sound Editor
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2014
Kumu Hina
Movie Sound Editor
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2014
After My Garden Grows
Movie Audio Post Coordinator
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2011
Bravo! Common Men, Uncommon Valor
Movie Additional Production Sound Mixer
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2011
We Were Here
Movie Sound
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2009
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Live - Sweet Emotion
Movie Sound Editor
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2006
The Devil and Daniel Johnston
Movie Sound Designer
- 2005
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2003
Bad Santa
Movie Sound Effects Editor
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2000
Pitch Black
Movie Sound Effects Editor
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1998
Modulations
Movie Sound Effects Editor
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1993
Mr. Wonderful
Movie Sound Effects Editor
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1992
Equinox
Movie Sound Effects Editor
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1992
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
Movie Sound Effects Editor
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1991
A Matter of Degrees
Movie Apprentice Sound Editor
