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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.
Camelia Frieberg was born in 1959 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She is a producer and assistant director, known for The Sweet Hereafter (1997), Exotica (1994) and A Stone's Throw (2006).
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Camelia Frieberg Executive and Co-Producer. Camelia Frieberg is an award-winning film producer, director and a biodynamic farmer. She was the producer of Atom Egoyan's Oscar-nominated “The Sweet Hereafter” and “Exotica” and Jeremy Podeswa's “The Five Senses”.
For over thirty years, both in Toronto and Nova Scotia, Camelia Frieberg worked as a film producer, director and writer. She is most well known for her longtime association with Atom Egoyan, serving as the producer of a number of Atom’s films including his Academy Award nominated “The Sweet Hereafter” and the multiple award winning ...
For over thirty years, both in Toronto and Nova Scotia, Camelia Frieberg worked as a film producer, director and writer. She is most well known for her longtime association with Atom Egoyan, serving as the producer of a number of Atom’s films including his Academy Award nominated The Sweet Hereafter and the multiple award winning Exotica.
One of Canada’s busiest and most accomplished independent producers, Camelia Frieberg studied music and anthropology at Bennington College in Vermont before beginning her career as a freelance journalist in Toronto.
Film Description: "Born of a revelatory encounter with a young mother who found haven (of a kind) in Toronto after fleeing Salvadorean death squads, Camelia Frieberg's Crossing the River addresses not only the intense personal and political impact of the encounter upon the filmmaker, but the ever-narrowing gap between first and third world experience in an age of mass refugee resettlement."
