diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/ba/backgroundremover/package.nix b/pkgs/by-name/ba/backgroundremover/package.nix
index a39448c661fb..1b963d940c7d 100644
--- a/pkgs/by-name/ba/backgroundremover/package.nix
+++ b/pkgs/by-name/ba/backgroundremover/package.nix
@@ -14,6 +14,10 @@ let
     version = "0.2.9";
     pyproject = true;
 
+    build-system = [
+      p.setuptools
+    ];
+
     src = fetchFromGitHub {
       owner = "nadermx";
       repo = "backgroundremover";
@@ -29,21 +33,21 @@ let
     '';
 
     postPatch = ''
+      rm -rf *dist
       substituteInPlace backgroundremover/bg.py backgroundremover/u2net/detect.py \
         --replace-fail 'os.path.expanduser(os.path.join("~", ".u2net", model_name + ".pth"))' "os.path.join(\"$models\", model_name + \".pth\")"
-    '';
 
-    nativeBuildInputs = [
-      p.setuptools
-      p.wheel
-    ];
+      substituteInPlace backgroundremover/bg.py \
+        --replace-fail 'import moviepy.editor' 'import moviepy'
+    '';
 
     pythonRelaxDeps = [
       "pillow"
       "torchvision"
+      "moviepy"
     ];
 
-    propagatedBuildInputs = [
+    dependencies = [
       p.certifi
       p.charset-normalizer
       p.ffmpeg-python
@@ -95,13 +99,13 @@ let
 
     doCheck = false; # no tests
 
-    meta = with lib; {
+    meta = {
       mainProgram = "backgroundremover";
       description = "Command line tool to remove background from image and video, made by nadermx to power";
       homepage = "https://BackgroundRemoverAI.com";
       downloadPage = "https://github.com/nadermx/backgroundremover/releases";
-      license = licenses.mit;
-      maintainers = [ maintainers.lucasew ];
+      license = lib.licenses.mit;
+      maintainers = [ lib.maintainers.lucasew ];
     };
   };
 in