In 2000, Emile Sherman founded Ocean Pictures, a feature film production and distribution company. Among Ocean's films are Phillip Noyce's internationally acclaimed Rabbit-Proof Fence, starring Kenneth Branagh; Paul Goldman's The Night We Called It a Day, starring Dennis Hopper and Melanie Griffith; and Ted Emery's The Honourable Wally Norman, which opened the Sydney Film Festival in 2003. Emile also produced Rod Freedman's award-winning documentary Uncle Chatzkel.

Through his current company, Sherman Pictures, he has produced Opal Dream which is directed by Peter Cattaneo (The Full Monty). Opal Dream is being released internationally in 2006 including in the US by Focus Features. Most recently, he produced Neil Armfield's Candy, starring Abbie Cornish, Heath Ledger, and Geoffrey Rush. Candy was selected for Official Competition at the Berlin International Film Festival 2006 and has sold to all major territories internationally. Sherman Pictures also executive-produced and acted as Australian distributor on Anna Reeves' Oyster Farmer, which was one of the most successful Australian films at the box office in 2005.

Sherman Pictures is now in production on $9.99, a stop motion animation feature film based on internationally acclaimed Israeli writer Etgar Keret's short stories. It is being sold by Fortissimo Films and released in Australia by Dendy Films. Sherman Pictures is also due to start shooting an adaptation of Nobel Prize winning author J.M.Coetzee's Booker Prize winning novel 'Disgrace', starring John Malkovich, in early 2007.

Emile Sherman holds a Masters Degree in English Literature, a Bachelor of Law Degree, and had a background in journalism before entering the film industry.