Camelia Frieberg
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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]
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.
