To Be Heumann

An award-winning documentary producer/director/writer, her work has been honored with multiple Emmy nominations and three Emmy Awards. Additionally, she has been recognized by the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Journalism Awards, the Peabody Awards, the Writer’s Guild Awards, and the Sundance Film Festival. Her career highlights include senior producing two acclaimed PBS series on FDR and LBJ; directing and writing nine films for the PBS series, American Experience: Chicago ‘68, Surviving the Dust Bowl, Meltdown at Three Mile Island, Fatal Flood, The Pill, Test Tube Babies, The Forgotten Plague, The Codebreaker, and Change, Not Charity. Other films were featured in Healing and the Mind with Bill Moyers, Slavery & the Making of America, Destination America, and This Emotional Life. Recently, she directed two episodes on the opioid crisis for the series, Big Pharma. Her film, Ballerina Boys, was the most streamed documentary on the PBS series, American Masters. Her latest work is Hannah Arendt: Facing Tyranny.

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, which received the 2020 Sundance Film Festival Audience Award, the 2021 Independent Spirit Award for Best Feature Documentary, and a 2021 Peabody Award. He is an executive producer on the Emmy Award-winning documentary, Patrice: The Movie. LeBrecht directed the documentary Change, Not Charity: The Americans with Disabilities Act for the PBS American Experience series. LeBrecht co-founded two 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 on advocacy in the narrative side of film and television. He is also a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.

Sarah Keeling is a documentary producer and archival producer. In 2025, she produced the PBS film, Change, Not Charity, about the modern disability rights movement, directed by Jim LeBrecht (Crip Camp) and narrated by Peter Dinklage. Sarah went on to field produce Noah Schamus and Brit Fryer’s forthcoming documentary, With Time, and produced two episodes for a six-part documentary series, Big Pharma, co-directed by Chana Gazit and Robert Kenner (Food Inc). In 2024, she joined the archival team for the Emmy-nominated weekly political docuseries, The Circus. Sarah was a 2016 UnionDocs Collaborative Studio Fellow and co-directed the short documentary, Into My Life, which screened at Tribeca, Hot Docs, and Camden International Film Festival, and was awarded Best Documentary Short at the Reel Sisters of the Diaspora Film Festival. She was a 2018 IFP Made in New York Fellow and has associate produced documentaries for PBS, HBO, Showtime, and ABC/HULU.