Camelia Frieberg (born 1959) is a

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film producer and director."Champion of Canadian film gets her salute: Sweet Hereafter producer Camelia Frieberg is Vancouver Women in Film and Video's woman of the year". ''

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'', February 26, 1999. She is a two-time winner of the

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for

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, as producer of

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's films ''

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'' and '' The Sweet Hereafter''.

Career

Originally from Toronto, she studied

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."Crusading producer passionate about film: She isn't afraid to confront the mandarins and accountants". ''

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'', June 19, 1994. 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''. She then became a production manager on Egoyan's ''

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'', working her way up to production on his later films '' Speaking Parts'' and '' The Adjuster''. She also produced

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's films ''

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'' and '' The Five Senses'',

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's '' Wilby Wonderful'' and Amnon Buchbinder's '' The Fishing Trip'' and '' Whole New Thing'', and was an executive producer of

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's ''

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''.

Direction

In 1988, Frieberg directed the documentary film ''Crossing the River'', a profile of a

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refugee living in Canada. In 2006, she made her debut as a feature film director, with the film '' A Stone's Throw''."Camelia Frieberg's 'mid-life opening' behind the camera"
. canada.com, August 11, 2007. She subsequently launched The Pollination Project, an environmentally sustainable creative retreat centre near Bridgewater,

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."Camelia Frieberg's cross-pollination project"
'' The Coast'', September 3, 2009.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Frieberg, Camelia 1949 births Film producers from Ontario Canadian documentary film directors Canadian women film directors Canadian women screenwriters Living people Bennington College alumni Film directors from Toronto Canadian film critics Canadian women film critics Screenwriters from Toronto Canadian women film producers Canadian women non-fiction writers Canadian women documentary filmmakers Producers of Best Picture Genie and Canadian Screen Award winners