Fruitful Films Pty Ltd
Fruitful Films is a video and TV production company in Melbourne, Australia. Its principal, Marsha Emerman, makes powerful documentaries that enrich, inspire, and open new windows on the world.
Our award-winning independent films, made for international audiences, embrace arts and culture, social justice and peace, personal stories and positive visions of the future. They are shown in cinemas, on television and at international festivals, and are also highly valued for educational and teaching purposes.
Fruitful Films provides film-making, research, writing, script development and consultancy services. We also make films commissioned by international aid, human rights, community and educational groups.
Marsha Emerman
Producer / Director / Writer
Marsha has been producing, directing, writing and researching documentaries for twenty-five years. Her film Children of the Crocodile, a personal history of East Timor, pre-sold and was broadcast on SBS TV, screened in cinemas, and showed in festivals around the world. It won the Audience Award for Best Documentary at Toronto’s Inside Out Festival and the Award of Excellence at Through Her Eyes Film Festival. Marsha’s other directing and producing credits include Lihok Pilipina, about women in the Philippines and Intersections, about new migrants to Australia.
In the USA, Marsha was awarded a Masters Degree in Cinema Studies from San Francisco State University and worked on such classic films as Dark Circle, The Day After Trinity and The Fall of the I-Hotel. Since migrating to Australia in 1989, Marsha has taught documentary filmmaking at the Victorian College of the Arts School of Film & TV and continued making visually and emotionally evocative films on arts, culture, and social issues.
Her current project On the Banks of the Tigris: the hidden story of Iraqi music is an extraordinary celebration of music and the cultural ties that unite people across religious boundaries.
Majid Shokor
Writer / Researcher
Majid Shokor is a multi-talented writer, researcher, and actor for stage and screen. His plays include: The Regretful Nightingale, presented on Lebanese state television, The Princess's Jewel, and A Way to the Home, adapted from poems by Mahmood Darwesh. Originally from Baghdad, Majid now lives in Melbourne. In Australia, he has appeared in many plays, short films, TV series and the feature film Lucky Miles, for which he was also the cultural consultant. In 2006 he received a prestigious Green Room Award nomination for Best Actor in independent theatre. He is currently completing a post-graduate diploma in Community Cultural Development at the VCA, University of Melbourne.
