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Friesen Tracey
Tracey Friesen joined the NFB Pacific and Yukon Centre as producer in May 2001.
Tracey has worked as a freelance editor and was a visual effects producer and director of sales and industry relations at a leading post-production house. Actively involved in the Vancouver film community, she spent three years on the board of Women in Film & Video Vancouver, serving one term as president, and has taught workshops on post-production and visual effects.
Her NFB credits include the co-production ScaredSacred, winner of a Special Jury Award at the 2004 Toronto International Film Festival, as well as Being Caribou. Tracey's productions Kosovo: Fragile Peace and From Baghdad to Peace Country address global conflicts, while health and community issues are at the heart of co-productions The Ties That Bind, a film and Internet documentary and community engagement project, and The Weight of the World.
More recently Tracey has produced or co-produced Confessions of an Innocent Man (2007), about the wrongful imprisonment of Bill Sampson in a Saudi jail; Water Detectives, about the efforts of children in Mexico to conserve water; Carts of Darkness (2008) about homeless men in Voncouver who race shopping carts; and Dirt (2008), an odyssey into all things unclean.
