---
name: "Camelia Frieberg"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/camelia-frieberg"
fi1m_id: "camelia-frieberg"
imdb_id: "nm0294928"
tmdb_id: 64713
wikidata_id: "Q22277836"
roles: ["Producer"]
born: "1 January 1959"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T22:14:33.291335+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Camelia Frieberg

## Identity

Camelia Frieberg

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/camelia-frieberg
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** camelia-frieberg
- **IMDb ID:** nm0294928
- **TMDB ID:** 64713
- **Wikidata ID:** Q22277836
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camelia_Frieberg, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q22277836, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0294928/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/64713

Producer. Born 1 January 1959 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Born:** 1 January 1959, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camelia_Frieberg, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q22277836, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0294928/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/64713

## Biography

Camelia Frieberg is a Canadian film producer and director. Born in 1959 in Toronto, Ontario, she studied ethnomusicology at Bennington College in Vermont. After working as a freelance journalist in Toronto, she entered filmmaking as second assistant director on Charles Burnett’s *My Brother’s Wedding* (1983) and later served as production manager on Atom Egoyan’s *Next of Kin* (1984).

She collaborated frequently with Egoyan, rising to co-producer on *The Adjuster* (1991) and producer on *Exotica* (1994) and *The Sweet Hereafter* (1997). Both *Exotica* and *The Sweet Hereafter* won the Genie Award for Best Motion Picture. She has also produced Jeremy Podeswa’s *Eclipse* (1994) and *The Five Senses* (1999), and Daniel MacIvor’s *Wilby Wonderful* (2004).

Frieberg directed the documentary *Crossing the River* (1988) and the feature *A Stone’s Throw* (2006). She has received the Women in Film and Television–Toronto Crystal Award for Excellence in Production.

*Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org, cfe.tiff.net.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Sweet Hereafter* (1997), Fi1m 88, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/the-sweet-hereafter.md)

## Complete filmography (17)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Modified* (2017), Executive Co-Producer
- *A Stone's Throw* (2006), Writer, Director, Executive Producer
- *Whole New Thing* (2005), Executive Producer, Producer
- *Wilby Wonderful* (2004), Producer
- *The Blue Butterfly* (2004), Co-Executive Producer
- *The Five Senses* (1999), Producer
- *The Sweet Hereafter* (1997), Producer — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/film/the-sweet-hereafter.md)
- *Eclipse* (1995), Producer
- *Exotica* (1994), Producer
- *The Adjuster* (1991), Co-Producer, Production Manager
- *Speaking Parts* (1990), Delegated Producer
- *Family Viewing* (1987), Production Manager, First Assistant Director
- *No Way! Not Me* (1987), Production Coordinator
- *My Brother's Wedding* (1985), Second Assistant Director
- *Next of Kin* (1984), Production Manager
- *Oddballs* (1984), Second Assistant Director
- *Screwballs* (1983), Assistant Director

## Awards

### Other awards — 2 won

- Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television Award for Best Motion Picture 1997: Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television Award for Best Motion Picture (won), for *The Sweet Hereafter*
- Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television Award for Best Motion Picture 1994: Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television Award for Best Motion Picture (won), for *Exotica*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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