Jim LeBrecht

Jim LeBrecht has over 45 years of experience as a film and theater sound designer and mixer, filmmaker, podcast host, author, and disability rights activist. LeBrecht co- directed and co-produced, with Nicole Newnham, the 2021 Oscar nominated feature length documentary, Crip Camp.

Crip Camp received the 2020 Sundance Film Festival Audience Award for feature length documentary, the 2021 Independent Spirit award for Best Feature Documentary and a 2021 Peabody Award.

LeBrecht has co-founded 2 organizations that support creatives with disabilities in the entertainment industry. FWD-Doc is an organization that supports documentary filmmakers. The 1in4 Coalition’s work focuses more on advocacy in the narrative side of film and television.

He is an executive producer on the Emmy Award winning documentary, Patrice: The Movie and the upcoming biopic Being Heumann about disability rights legend Judy Heumann for Apple TV+. LeBrecht directed the documentary Change Not Charity: the Americans with Disabilities Act for PBS’ American Experience.

Jim is a member of the Disability Futures Fellowship, an initiative of the Ford Foundation and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. He is also a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.