Emma Robinson is a producer/director, writer and photographer with more than twenty-five years' experience across all aspects of film and television production. An acting graduate of Toi Whakaari: New Zealand Drama School, she worked in theatre before moving behind the scenes as an assistant director, production manager and casting director for film, TV and commercials. Emma began directing for Gibson Group's TV programmes No. 8 Wired and Frontseat in 2000.
Since then her company, EJR Productions, has produced a wide range of factual content for government departments, NGOs and the private sector including E Tu Whanau, Breast Cancer Aotearoa Coalition, Ministry of Social Development, Barnados NZ, Save the Children (NZ) and Enable NZ.
Over the past five years Emma has worked with Gibson International directing multimedia content for Texas Seaport Museum's Ship to Shore and Juneteenth exhibitions, Hall of Champions at Cambridge Stud Heritage Centre, the Curio Guide for Curiospace and is currently engaged as writer/director of AV content for a new exhibition due to open at MTG Hawkes Bay in 2025.
Other recent projects include production managing The Watch, a commercial short film for the Lumix Flow State Project and PM/1st AD on Unreel, a theatre/film project for Te Rākau Hua O Te Wao Tapu.
As a writer, Emma has published short fiction in literary journals in NZ and the USA. She completed a Masters in Creative Writing at the International Institute of Modern Letters (Te Herenga Waka - Victoria University of Wellington) in 2022, receiving an IIML project scholarship to continue work on her manuscript. Linking her passion for words and pictures, Emma has produced accompanying photography that has been published alongside her writing in Cloud Ink, Headland and Phantom Billstickers' Café Reader. Headshots and promotional photographs for actors and musicians have been printed in The Post, NZ Herald, The Listener and other news outlets.
Since then her company, EJR Productions, has produced a wide range of factual content for government departments, NGOs and the private sector including E Tu Whanau, Breast Cancer Aotearoa Coalition, Ministry of Social Development, Barnados NZ, Save the Children (NZ) and Enable NZ.
Over the past five years Emma has worked with Gibson International directing multimedia content for Texas Seaport Museum's Ship to Shore and Juneteenth exhibitions, Hall of Champions at Cambridge Stud Heritage Centre, the Curio Guide for Curiospace and is currently engaged as writer/director of AV content for a new exhibition due to open at MTG Hawkes Bay in 2025.
Other recent projects include production managing The Watch, a commercial short film for the Lumix Flow State Project and PM/1st AD on Unreel, a theatre/film project for Te Rākau Hua O Te Wao Tapu.
As a writer, Emma has published short fiction in literary journals in NZ and the USA. She completed a Masters in Creative Writing at the International Institute of Modern Letters (Te Herenga Waka - Victoria University of Wellington) in 2022, receiving an IIML project scholarship to continue work on her manuscript. Linking her passion for words and pictures, Emma has produced accompanying photography that has been published alongside her writing in Cloud Ink, Headland and Phantom Billstickers' Café Reader. Headshots and promotional photographs for actors and musicians have been printed in The Post, NZ Herald, The Listener and other news outlets.
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