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Our Team
Larissa Bonaci
Founder & Producer
Producer
Larissa is an award-winning Maltese producer, creator and actress based between London and Malta. Trained at the American Academy of Dramatic
Arts and London Film Academy, she works across film, television and documentary, championing stories of women's resilience, identity and social change.
She is the founder of Nokkla Productions, a Malta–UK-based company whose projects have been supported by Arts Council Malta, Screen Malta, the Malta Tourism Authority and Northern Ireland Screen. The company's latest television project was selected for the 2026–2027 Apollo Series programme at the Séries Mania Institute.
Her producing credits include the short film Noah, starring Louisa Harland (Renegade Nell), which screened at BAFTA- and Oscar-qualifying festivals, and the mid-length drama Morning Star, starring Ben Lamb (The Gilded Age), which continues to receive international recognition.
She is currently directing and producing Force Des Femmes, a feature documentary exploring women's resilience in the aftermath of trauma and abuse. The project is also being adapted into a verbatim theatre production.
Larissa is part of the 2024/2025 cohort of the Erich Pommer Institute's Series' Women programme, a European leadership initiative supporting
women leaders in television. She also serves as General Secretary of the Malta Producers Association.
Emma Tuqan is an award-winning director and writer from Northern Ireland. Her films have screened internationally at BAFTA and Oscar- qualifying festivals, and feature talent including Louisa Harland (Derry Girls, Renegade Nell) and Kingsley Ben-Adir (One Love, Barbie).
She is co-director and producer at Nokkla Productions developing a slate of stories across multiple genres supported by Arts Council Malta and Screen Malta. They have multiple projects in development, with their most recent selected for the Apollo Series Programme.
Emma’s directing work has been supported by Northern Ireland Screen, the BFI, The National Lottery and centres on stories of underrepresented groups — particularly women from low socio- economic backgrounds.
A previous winner of the Northern Ireland New Writer Focus, Emma was selected for Filmonics, the BFI-backed accelerator supporting promising emerging female filmmakers. She also works as a script editor and reader for international production companies and commissioners, including Channel 4 and the BBC.