About
Hello, I'm Emma Robinson and I have more than twenty-five years experience in all aspects of film, video and television production. I have produced and directed moving image content for clients including Ministry of Social Development, E Tu Whanau, Breast Cancer Aotearoa Coalition, Enable NZ Ltd, NEWZATS, Barnardos and Save the Children NZ. I have provided video and photography services to POW Studios Ltd and to singer/songwriter Charlotte Yates.
I started working in the film industry as a production manager and second assistant director before making my directorial debut on backch@t (Gibson Group Ltd) in 1997. In 2000 I began reporting and presenting for the award-winning rural report programme, No.8 Wired. I was runner-up for the BNZ Rongo Award, Excellence in Agricultural Journalism for my story Rural Nurse. Also for Gibson Group, I joined Frontseat as a presenter then directed the documentary Behind the Scenes at the Lexus: SongQuest 2005. Over the past fifteen years I have produced and directed video content as EJR Productions.
Prior to the current Covid-19 lockdown I began work for Gibson Group as the AV Director for their new Ship to Shore exhibit at the Texas Seaport Museum, Galveston. For this project I am script writing and will be directing 27 short videos telling the stories of those who settled in Galveston 1850-1900.
Last year I completed new audiovisual content for E Tu Whanau. These videos feature interviews recorded at Waiwhetu Marae in Lower Hutt and at the PALMS/Rangtahi hui held in Rotorua, July 2019.
In February 2019 I was part of the successful Thistle Hall (Cuba Street, Wellington) exhibition, All Good Things, selling original photographic prints alongside my greeting card range, emmacards
In 2017, I directed and edited 13 x 1 minute videos for The Curio Guide at Tumu Toko - Curioscape. View the compilation video here.
I studied acting at Toi Whakaari: New Zealand Drama School, photography at Photofusion Photography Centre, London and creative writing at Victoria University’s International Institute of Modern Letters in Wellington. My writing and photography is published in print and in online journals. I have photographic cards for sale in Wellington, Waitarere Beach, Tokanui and in the Wairarapa. See emmacards.