Brigitte Berman (born 1951) is a Canadian documentary filmmaker, most noted for her 1985 film Artie Shaw: Time Is All You've Got.
[1] Originally from West Germany, she moved to Canada with her family in childhood and studied film at Queen's University.
[9] In the mid-1990s Shaw sued Berman on the grounds that as Time Is All You've Got had become more critically and commercially successful than had been expected, he was entitled to receive a greater share of the film's profits than he had originally agreed to in the 1980s.
[11] She subsequently directed a number of television films before returning to documentary filmmaking in the late 2000s with Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel (2009).
[12] She also later released the Gordon Pinsent documentary The River of My Dreams in 2016,[13] and Hugh Hefner's After Dark: Speaking Out in America in 2018.