JBL Films, Inc produces and or shoots 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.

In addition to freelancing for noted directors and producers as a D.P. JB Letchinger/JBL Films produces 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 Films has just completed a four part series for the California Wildlife Center. See the clips here. Working with Bright Ray Raw Films, we coproduced, shot and edited this project

Another recent project is
"Music, Mayhem, Disaster and Doctors - The Survivor
this film follows and features one musician displaced after Katrina Hurricane in New Orleans. It features Rasheed Akbar and his wife Patricia.

JBL Films has produced 10 promotional documentary films since 2004 for Jewish Vocational Service Los Angeles. Many of which have won awards:
In 2007, "JVS - Hand in Hand" : - is available for viewing here.
In 2008, "Spreading Our Wings" : - is available for viewing here
In 2009, "New Beginnings" : - is available for viewing here
In 2010, "Reinvention": - is available for viewing here
n 2011, "Continuing the Legacy": - is available for viewing here
n 2011, "Overcoming the Odds": - is available for viewing here

Recently, JB traveled to Houston to shoot Jerry Seinfeld for an upcoming PBS film paying tribute to Ed Sullivan comedy clips. Jerry quipped, "Now you see why I left the television business." (Hilarious!!) Ray Romano, Kathy Griffin, Arsenio Hall and more were lensed here in Los Angeles.

JBL Films provided full crew to the U.S. Conference of Mayors in July 2011. More details here.

For the last few years, JB has been hard at work as a D.P. taping segments for the Television Academy's Archive of American Television.

A treasured highlight, in 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 collaborated with documentary directors Kirby Dick and JoAnn Young, shooting films for cable and PBS release, while continuing to work with entertainment-related clients.


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

Back in the Day, JB trained and interned with Kartemquin Films, ("Hoop Dreams") working with doc veterans Gordon Quinn, Jerry Blumenthal, Steve James, Frederick 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 himself and audio engineers for many behind the scenes documentary style shoots. This includes work for hire for MGM, Fox, Warner Brothers, Disney, Pixar, Sony Pictures, and Sony Music. Many production companies have worked with our crews in the service of broadcast television shows for Bravo, The History Channel, TLC, VH-1, Style Network, Travel Channel, PBS. WE TV, Tru TV and many more. We can translate documentary skills and styles into fashionable, promotion oriented projects for the Internet, DVD, EPKs, VNRs, and films.
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