Our Team

Founder & Producer

Larissa is an award-winning actress and producer, who originally trained at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. Her time on set for TV and Film has been invaluable and gives her a unique, sensitive approach as a producer. Her experience has included her among the casts of famed directors like Michael Bay including actors Colm Meaney, David Costabile and Alfred Molina. She is also the founder and director of Nokkla Productions, which operates in Malta and the UK.

As a producer, she champions powerful stories with women at the centre. After production-managing a series of films in Malta, she found a passion for work behind the camera and commenced her studies in producing at the London Film Academy. She produced the short film Noah starring Louisa Harland (Derry Girls, Renegade Nell), which screened at BAFTA and OSCAR-affiliated festivals. Her film Morning Star featuring Ben Lamb, (The Gilded Age) funded by Screen Malta and the Malta Tourism Authority, is currently screening at international festivals and already garnering awards. She was recently awarded Best Actress at the Papa International Historical Film Festival 2024.

She had the pleasure to produce and co-direct a campaign video for the Calzy Foundation which is tirelessly working to establish a 24/7 emergency mental health crisis helpline.

Larissa has two short films in post-production and multiple feature film and TV projects on her development slate, including the documentary "La Force des Femmes" that celebrates Moroccan Women's Resilience with the support of Souad Dibi from the Association Feminine El Khir.

Nokkla Productions has recently secured a development grant from Northern Ireland Screen for its debut feature film.

Emma Williamson (she/her) is an award-winning writer from Northern Ireland. Her films have screened internationally at BAFTA and OSCAR-affiliated festivals. Her screenwriting and directing have been funded by The National Lottery, the BFI and Malta Screen. Her writing is currently in development with multiple production companies.

Emma is a previous winner of the Northern Ireland Screen’s New Writer Focus and has been short-listed for the BBC Writersroom. She has completed The National Film and Television School’s TV pilot writing course where she developed The System, a 1- hour TV pilot under the tutelage of Peter Ansorge (previously head of Drama at channel 4). Her scripts are in consideration at Film4, All3Media, Out of Orbit and WeeBuns Productions.

Emma takes her craft very seriously having completed John Yorke’s Story for Script Development, where she studied Script Editing. She is also a member of this year’s BFI Filmonomics cohort, a British Film Institute-backed accelerator program, aimed at supporting emerging female writers to develop their first feature film. When Emma is not writing or developing her own practice she works as a script reader for Lift-Off Film Festival and Rianne Reads - a program supporting the writing of female or female-identifying scriptwriters. Her work focuses primarily on telling the stories of underrepresented groups, especially those from low socio-economic backgrounds. She is influenced heavily by the writing of Andrea Arnold, Paul Laverty, Jane Campion and more recently Craig Mazin.

Larissa Bonaci

Emma Williamson

Creative Producer/Writer