Camelia Frieberg

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

Career Originally from Toronto, she studied ethnomusicology at Bennington College in Vermont. 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. Daniel MacIvor's Wilby Wonderful and Amnon Buchbinder's The Fishing Trip 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. In 2006, she made her debut as a feature film director, with the film A Stone's Throw.

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