Charby Ibrahim is passionate about social impact documentaries with a creative twist. He comes to the film industry with a background in youth advocacy and empowerment, community radio, and over 15 years in the alternative education system - most recently having taught at Parkville College; a state high school behind the walls of Victoria's juvenile detention centre. Charby's unconventional career path led him to a Masters degree in Documentary Filmmaking at the VCA in2016, where he began bringing issues that he cares so deeply about to broad mainstream audiences.
Soon after graduation, 'Marhaba Films' was born; a documentary production company primarily concerned with social impact creative filmmaking, where Charby and his team cover issues such as juvenile justice, inequality, substance abuse and addiction, the experiences of young people on the fringes, racism and xenophobia, and refugee and asylum seeker matters, to name a few. Marhaba Films is proudly run by culturally diverse people of colour behind the camera, who create stories with and about people who've historically been overlooked, in front of it.
