Camelia Frieberg (born 1959) is a Canadian film producer and director.^[1] She is a two-time winner of the Genie Award for Best Picture, as producer of Atom Egoyan's films Exotica^[2] and The Sweet Hereafter.^[3]

Career

Originally from Toronto, she studied ethnomusicology at Bennington College in Vermont.^[4] 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.^[4] 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.^[4]

She also produced Jeremy Podeswa's films Eclipse^[4] and The Five Senses,^[5] Daniel MacIvor's Wilby Wonderful^[6] and Amnon Buchbinder's The Fishing Trip^[1] and Whole New Thing,^[7] 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.^[8] In 2006, she made her debut as a feature film director, with the film A Stone's Throw.^[9]

She subsequently launched The Pollination Project, an environmentally sustainable creative retreat centre near Bridgewater, Nova Scotia.^[10]