FRIEDA LUK (BC) is a writer/director/producer of Cantonese descent from Vancouver, British Columbia. She produced and directed two films that premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF): American Sisyphus(2012), and The Encounter (2014). As a screenwriter, Frieda’s screenplay Delicacy won HBO’s Project Greenlight filmmaking competition in 2014, and was screened at major festivals, including the Telluride Film Festival and Tribeca Film Festival. In 2018 she was selected to participate in the TIFF Writer’s Studio. In 2016 she was selected to participate in the TIFF Talent Lab. In 2015 she was the recipient of the Irving Avrich fund for emerging artists at the TIFF. In 2011 she was nominated for a New York Woman in Film and Television award for emerging talent. She received a Carla Bruni Sarkozy Scholarship in 2013 to further her studies in Paris. She has worked professionally in both English and French at organizations such as Unifrance and the Canadian Cultural Centre in Paris. Prior to filmmaking she was a Marshall McLuhan graduate scholar at the University of Toronto and a videographer and producer at SUNTV in Toronto. She received her MFA from Columbia University and is currently training as a kink-informed intimacy coordinator.
In 2024, she released her debut feature film, Sacred Creatures, a Canada-Italy co-production, produced by My Sister Miriam Films Inc. and the Italian Doppio Nodo Double Bind srl, with the support of Film Commission Torino Piemonte. The film tells the story of the Sarracino siblings who find themselves after 10 years, in Italy, in Marene, where the youngest of the three lives. The story that delves into the supernatural and misunderstandings which, move from darker and noir tones to more markedly grotesque and comedy tones, and reflects on the concept of spirituality and the search for an ideal and transcendent guide.