Camelia Frieberg (born 1959) is a Canadian film producer and director."Champion of Canadian film gets her salute: Sweet Hereafter producer Camelia Frieberg is Vancouver Women in Film and Video's woman of the year". Vancouver Sun, February 26, 1999. She is a two-time winner of the Genie Award for Best Picture, as producer of Atom Egoyan's films Exotica"Egoyan and Exotica dominate Genies". The Globe and Mail, December 8, 1994. and The Sweet Hereafter."Egoyan film wins 8 Genies". The Globe and Mail, December 15, 1997.
Career Originally from Toronto, she studied ethnomusicology at Bennington College in Vermont."Crusading producer passionate about film: She isn't afraid to confront the mandarins and accountants". Toronto Star, June 19, 1994. Returning to Toronto after her graduation, she wrote film reviews for various Toronto publications until taking a job as second assistant director on Charles Burnett's 1983 film My Brother's Wedding. She then became a production manager on Egoyan's Next of Kin, working her way up to production on his later films Speaking Parts and The Adjuster.
She also produced Jeremy Podeswa's films Eclipse and The Five Senses,"Sensing Success: Canada at Cannes: Jeremy Podeswa prepares for the festival". National Post, May 15, 1999. Daniel MacIvor's Wilby Wonderful"Antidote to chaos: Doing his best to avoid news coverage, playwright Daniel MacIvor says his latest play offers respite for the war weary". Halifax Daily News, March 22, 2003. and Amnon Buchbinder's The Fishing Trip and Whole New Thing,"Whole New Thing for Webber". Halifax Daily News, September 15, 2005. and was an executive producer of Deepa Mehta's Bollywood/Hollywood.
Direction In 1988, Frieberg directed the documentary film Crossing the River, a profile of a Salvadoran refugee living in Canada."Salvadorean refugee film premiers tonight". Kingston Whig-Standard, February 27, 1989. In 2006, she made her debut as a feature film director, with the film A Stone's Throw."Camelia Frieberg's 'mid-life opening' behind the camera" . canada.com, August 11, 2007.
She subsequently launched The Pollination Project, an environmentally sustainable creative retreat centre near Bridgewater, Nova Scotia."Camelia Frieberg's cross-pollination project". The Coast, September 3, 2009.
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