Artie Shaw: Time Is All You've Got

In 2024, CultureVerse worked with Academy Award®-winning producer/director Brigitte Berman to create a 3D immersive experience celebrating her feature documentary “Artie Shaw: Time Is All You’ve Got” which won an Oscar® at the 1987 Academy Awards Ceremony. Berman’s film portrays the life and music of the brilliant and mercurial clarinetist, composer and bandleader Artie Shaw. Shaw’s complex love/hate relationship with his own celebrity caused him to walk away from performing almost as many times as he walked away from marriages with the most beautiful women.  The digital exhibit offers a rich array of media highlighting clips and visual images from the documentary and Berman’s career.

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About Brigitte Berman

Brigitte Berman is an Academy Award®-winning producer, director, writer and editor whose work in the film and television industry spans more than thirty-five years. She has produced and directed over two hundred documentaries, both independently and at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. With her production company, Bridge Film Productions Inc., Berman has produced and directed her two award-winning feature documentaries ‘Artie Shaw: Time Is All You’ve Got’ and ‘BIX: “ain’t none of them play like him yet.“’ Both were showcased at numerous international film festivals. ‘BIX’ won the Bronze Hugo at the Chicago International Film Festival and ‘Artie Shaw: Time Is All You’ve Got’ won the Oscar® for Best Documentary Feature, as well as First Prize at the Valladolid International Film Festival. Subsequently Berman wrote, directed and produced her first dramatic feature “The Circle Game” which had its world premiere at TIFF, as well as showcasing at a number of international film festivals.

Berman has continued to work as a director/producer/writer in both theatre and film, making documentaries and dramas to the present day. With her late husband, producer Victor Solnicki, she collaborated on three award-winning feature documentaries: “Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel” which won a Nomination for Outstanding Feature Documentary at the 42nd NAACP Image Awards and won First Prize at the Rhodes Island International Film Festival; “The River of My Dreams: A Portrait of Gordon Pinsent” which was featured as the Opening Night Gala at the St. John’s International Women’s Film Festival, after world premiering at TIFF; “Hugh Hefner’s After Dark: Speaking Out in America” world premiered at the prestigious Telluride Film Festival, won the Audience Choice Award for most Popular Canadian Film at the Whistler Film Festival and won a Best Documentary Feature Film Award at the Montana International Film Festival.

Berman supervised the 4K Restoration and Remastered Sound of “BIX: “ain’t none of them play like him yet” and “Artie Shaw: Time Is All You’ve Got”. Her restored feature documentaries premiered at Film Forum in New York City - where both earned a New York Times ‘Critics Pick’ and won rave reviews. Currently Berman is in production on her next feature documentary.