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Brigitte Berman attended Queen’s University in Kingston Ontario where she studied English and Film. She won an Academy Award for her feature documentary Artie Shaw: Time is All You’ve Got. Her 2016 documentary about Gordon Pinsent The River of My Dreams screened at TIFF in September 2016. Her 2018 documentary Hugh Hefner: After Dark Speaking Out In America, revisits a previous subject and had its Canadian Premiere at the 2018 Whistler Film Festival. It focuses almost exclusively on the two late night syndicated series that Playboy produced. Playboy’s Penthouse from 1959 to 1960 and Playboy After Dark from 1968 to 1970.
Also see: Canadian Filmmakers at Whistler 2023.
Features & TV Movies:
VR indicates Direct-to-Video Release
How Music Came to the Garden City (TV-1980)
Elmira (TV-1980)
Bix: ‘Ain’t None of Them Play Like Him Yet’ (1981)
The Many Faces of Black (TV-1982)
The Osbornes: A Very Special Family (TV-1983)
Judy Chicago and the Dinner Party (TV-1983)
Artie Shaw: Time Is All You’ve Got (1985)
The Circle Game (1994)
Testing the Limits (1998)
Le porte-bonheur (2001)
Ta voix dans la nuit (2002)
Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel (2009)
The River of My Dreams: A Portrait of Gordon Pinsent (2016)
Hugh Hefner’s After Dark: Speaking Out In America (2018)
TV Series:
Robert Bateman: A Celebration of Nature (1984)
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