Camelia Frieberg

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]

References
  1. "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.
  2. "Egoyan and Exotica dominate Genies". The Globe and Mail, December 8, 1994.
  3. "Egoyan film wins 8 Genies". The Globe and Mail, December 15, 1997.
  4. "Crusading producer passionate about film: She isn't afraid to confront the mandarins and accountants". Toronto Star, June 19, 1994.
  5. "Sensing Success: Canada at Cannes: Jeremy Podeswa prepares for the festival". National Post, May 15, 1999.
  6. "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.
  7. "Whole New Thing for Webber". Halifax Daily News, September 15, 2005.
  8. "Salvadorean refugee film premiers tonight". Kingston Whig-Standard, February 27, 1989.
  9. "Camelia Frieberg's 'mid-life opening' behind the camera" Archived 2016-02-03 at the Wayback Machine. canada.com, August 11, 2007.
  10. "Camelia Frieberg's cross-pollination project". The Coast, September 3, 2009.
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