Jim LeBrecht

Sound · Production · Acting · Directing

Born May 8, 1956, 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 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.

Filmography

• 2026Kids Like Me — Executive Producer
• 2026The Haunting of Pennhurst — Executive Producer
• 2025Change, Not Charity: The Americans with Disabilities Act — Director
• 2025Deaf President Now! — Sound Re-Recording Mixer
• 2025The Tallest Dwarf — Sound Designer
• 2024Patrice: The Movie — Executive Producer
• 2024The Ride Ahead — Executive Producer
• 2023Fire Through Dry Grass — Executive Producer
• 2021All These Sons — Sound Designer, Sound Re-Recording Mixer
• 2020Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution — Self, Sound Re-Recording Mixer, Writer, Director, Producer
• 2018Exit Music — Sound
• 2018I Am Maris: Portrait of a Young Yogi — Sound Mixer
• 2018Minding the Gap — Sound Re-Recording Mixer
• 2017Unrest — Additional Sound Re-Recording Mixer
• 2016Extremis — Sound Designer
• 2016My Love Affair with the Brain — Sound Mixer
• 2014After My Garden Grows — Audio Post Coordinator
• 2014Finding the Gold Within — Supervising Sound Editor
• 2014Kumu Hina — Sound Editor
• 2011Bravo! Common Men, Uncommon Valor — Additional Production Sound Mixer
• 2011We Were Here — Sound
• 2009Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Live - Sweet Emotion — Sound Editor
• 2006The Devil and Daniel Johnston — Sound Designer, Sound Re-Recording Mixer
• 2005On Location in Tulsa: The Making of 'Rumble Fish' — Sound
• 2003Bad Santa — Sound Effects Editor
• 2000Pitch Black — Sound Effects Editor
• 1998Modulations — Sound Effects Editor
• 1993Mr. Wonderful — Sound Effects Editor
• 1992Equinox — Sound Effects Editor
• 1992Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me — Sound Effects Editor
• 1991A Matter of Degrees — Apprentice Sound Editor