JBL Films, Inc produces documentaries and promotional films.

If you are in a hurry and looking for a camera crew, click here for an online quicktime demo. If you'd like to learn more about JBL Films and JB Letchinger's documentary skills, read on.

JBL Films produces work-for-hire special purpose documentary style films and also independent documentaries that try to make a difference and a statement.
Clicking on the project titles below will take you to a page dedicated to that project

JBL Film's latest project is
"JVS - Hand in Hand" : - a promotional documentary for the Jewish Vocational Service Los Angeles.This is our fourth project for JVS, done from start to finish, including collaborating on the concept, directing, producing, shooting and editing. It has won awards and is available for viewing here.

We are looking for distribution and production partners for:
"Survivors: New Orleans Blues"
this film follows and features musicians displaced after the Katrina Hurricane in New Orleans. It features Rasheed Akbar, Steven Foster and Charles Moore.

In December of 2005, JB continued work on the "Survivors...." project. Here's the short video clip (work in progress)

Last year, 2006, JB was brought in to Memphis twice to work with Jerry Lee Lewis, shooting an EPK with live music performance at the Phillips Studio and extensive interviews at the Lewis Ranch for the Last Man Standing: Live DVD.

From the archives:

Past projects have included: "Taking Chances with Irving,"
a documentary film featuring Irving R. Letchinger is now available on this website.

JBL Films helped produce "Region Four - the Pigeon River,"
a daring investigation into corporate pollution on a massive scale.

An avid still photographer from a young age, JB has been incorporating stills into his documentary work, recently loaning many to the Grammy Foundation and Musicares to help publicize the destruction of Hurricane Katrina (click to view stills). (N.A.R.A.S./Musicares sponsored shoots in Memphis and New Orleans by hiring JBL Films to produce interviews detailing their efforts in the area) See full array of still photographs from New Orleans, from the "Survivors..." project.

Recently, JB has been shooting celebrities in Los Angeles,
for documentary and entertainment-related clients.

JB lensed an introduction with Tom Hanks for a project with
the Oscar-winning documentary filmmakers at the American Film Foundation and also worked on season of "Junkyard Wars." For years, JB has freelanced with noted documentary filmmakers at Media Process Group.

Also, he trained and interned with Kartemquin Films, ("Hoop Dreams") working with doc veterans Gordon Quinn, Jerry Blumenthal, Steve James, Fred Marx, and Peter Gilbert.

Formal training? Michael Rabiger was a great documentary teacher.

Give JB a call and he'll drop more names and bend your ear with stories and anecdotes about other documentary and narrative projects.

As a Crew Service with JB as DP/Cameraman, JBL Films has provided services for many studio released documentaries for DVD. This includes work for hire for MGM, Fox, Disney, Sony Pictures, and Sony Music. We translate documentary skills and styles into fashionable, promotion oriented projects for Dual disc, EPKs, VNRs, and films.
View reel of this kind of work here.

 

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818-932-9803

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