​FPM is a film and cultural production company dedicated to creating impactful cinema and multidisciplinary cultural projects, bridging narrative film making with visual arts, performance and community storytelling.
Founded by Emma Mattei, a writer,​ film producer, curator and film programmer working across publishing, film, festivals and exhibitions.
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FILM
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Kinemastik NGO (2004 – present)
Co-Founder & Program Director
Kinemastik is a cultural NGO founded in 2004, and based in Malta.
We are responsible for a year-round program of film screenings, workshops, talks, mentorship, concerts, exhibitions and film production.The Kinemastik International Short Film Festival is currently
supported by the ICO Fund – Arts Council Malta.
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Future Shorts
Secret Cinema, UK (2014 - 2019)
Program Director
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Revisiting (2026)
Short film/in production
Dir. Maria Pullicino
Producer
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Baħar Biss (2024)
Dir. Franziska Stenglin
Premiere DOK Leipzig in competition (2024).
Official Selection International Film Festival Rotterdam (2025),
Cinema du Réel Paris (2025).
Commissioned by Malta art biennial 2024.
Development & Co-Producer
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Burbank Syndrome (2026)
Docufiction/in production
Dir. Pia Borg
Development & Co-Producer
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Ried Jkun Jaf (2018) (Valletta Capital of Culture)
Dir. Edward Said
Producer
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Passage (2022)
Dir. Teresa Busuttil
Single channel digital video
Malta Footage
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Atlantis (2013)
Dir. Ben Russell
Production (Kinemastik)
Premiere Visions du Réel, Nyons, Switzerland.
Awards: Prix Nouvelles Vagues, Festival international du film
de la Roche-sur-Yon, France, 2014
Screenings: Tate Modern (Passage of Clouds),
Featured in: Vdrome, Le Cinema Club, Artforum
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Bus Terminus (2012)
Short Documentary about the end of the quasi autonomous
bus service in Malta.
Dirs. Emma Mattei, Harry Malt, Duncan Bone
Audience Award KISFF 2012
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CURATORIAL
Malta Contemporary Art Biennial – Inaugural Edition 2024 –
A Heritage Malta project – the national agency for museums, conservation practice and cultural heritage.
Curator – Main Pavilion and Public Program
Insulaphilia//MAIN EXHIBITION – 72 local and international artists across 15 heritage sites in Malta and Gozo.
Neolithic sites, underground passageways, forts and buildings of geopolitical importance—some of which had never been visited by the general public—were identified, upgraded and transformed into dynamic sites of convergence.
72 national and international artists, including Tania Bruguera, Laure Prouvost, Cecilia Vicuña, Pedro Reyes, Mel Chin, Monica de Miranda, Isabelle Borg, Austin Camilleri, Ibrahim Mahama, Rosa Barba, Jean Marie Appriou, Buhlebezwe Siwani, Adama Delphine Fawundu, Zehra Dogan, Zineb Sedira, Basim Magdy, Adrian Paci, Rethinking Lampedusa, Rafram Chaddad, Guadalupe Maravilla, Agnes Questionmark, Franziska Stenglin, Post Disaster Rooftops, Raphael Vella, Bettina Hutschek, Romeo Roxman Gatt, Anthony Spagnol, Aaron Bezzina, Edson Luli, Republic of Suez Canal, Sandra Zaffarese, Teresa Busuttil, Nina Gerada, Ana Shametaj & Giuditta Vendrame, Laura Besançon, Tom Van Malderen, Simon Benjamin, amongst others.
Public Program: 106 events targeted different audience types, including early childhood schools, elderly communities, local university students and European and international students and bilateral educational exchange projects. Collaboration extended to both Maltese and international institutions, including ACCLA, Alien Montesin, Art Explora, Art Workers Italia, Biennale Sur, Mirjana Batinić, Marie Briguglio, Valentina Buzzi, Rafram Chaddad, Centru Tbexbix, Epicure, Timmy Gambin, Liam Gauci, Marcia Grima, Image Threads, Karmaġenn, Larnaca Biennale, Magna Żmien, MADE Program, MCAST, Parasite, Rethinking Lampedusa, Rivoluzione delle Seppie, Ritmu Roots Music Festival, Virgilio Sieni, Żugraga, Michael Taussig, Tarzna, Tetuhi, The School of Winds and Waves, UNESCO - WHIPIC and Orientale University (IT).
Film Program: Orlando, My Political Biography dir. Paul B. Preciado, What About China? dir. Trinh Minh-ha, Being in a Place: A Portrait of Margaret Tait dir. Luke Fowler, Точка . Зору (Point of View) dir. Vadim Dumesh, Demonic dir. Pia Borg, She is the Other Gaze dir. Christiana Perschon, A Dream Journal dir. Jon Rafman, Bejn Is-Sema u L-Art dir. Adrian Camilleri, Hello Dankness dir. Soda Jerk.
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Gladiator II (2025)
Dir. Ridley Scott
Alex Rider 3 (2023)
Amazon Freevee (TV Series)
1923 (2022)
Paramount + TV
Casper and Emma (2022)
Cinenord (TV Series)
Career Opportunities in Murder and Mayhem (2022)
ABC Signature (TV Series)
Napoleon (2023)
Dir. Ridley Scott
Apple TV+
Jurassic World Dominion (2022)
Universal Pictures
Foundation (2021)
Apple+ TV
Das Boot 3 (2021)
Sky TV
By The Sea (2015)
Dir. Angelina Jolie
World War Z (2013)
Dir. Marc Forster
Game of Thrones (2011)
Dirs. Alan Taylor, Daniel Minahan, Brian Kirk
Devil’s Double (2011)
Dir. Lee Tamahori
WRITING/INTERVIEWS
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Uncommon Guide books – Malta, Stockholm, Dubai, Cairo, London, Algiers, Geneva (2010 - 2016). Founder and Editor-in-Chief.
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Malta Book Festival 2024 – interview with Paul Lynch, Booker Prize Winner 2023
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The Times of Malta (ongoing contributor since 2006).
Dapper Dan magazine, Greece.
Business of Fashion, UK.
Vice, UK.
We Are Listen, NYC.
Wix.com
Malta Tourism Authority, UK.
Aalto fashion label, Paris, France.
Rikke Ruhwald fashion design and sculpture, Denmark.
Scanorama SAS airline Magazine, Sweden.
Ada Bligaard Søby filmmaker, Denmark.
Zina de Plagny fashion label, Paris, France.
Studio For Potential Design, Pieces: a group exhibition about fragments at Sir John Soane's Museum, London, UK.
Raw Edges design studio, UK.
The Sea Is My Land (Feltrinelli, 2013), Italy.
Awguri, Giovanni Bonello (Merlin Publishers, 2017), Malta.
Chris Briffa Architects, Malta.
Content House, Malta.
Homeworks Magazine, Malta.
The People, Malta.
The Malta Independent.
Malta Today.
Malta This Month, Air Malta magazine, Malta.
EBM magazine, Malta.
Foodist magazine, Malta.
Pippa Mattei, food writer, Malta.
Johan Sandberg, photographer, France.
Simon Bajada, photographer & food writer, Sweden.
Kurt Arrigo, photographer, Malta.
Those Eyes, These Eyes, They Fade - photographic group show curated by Anne Immelé - Valletta Contemporary.
Ilaria Bernardini, author, Italy.
Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide.
Marriott International.
Secret Cinema, Secret Group, UK.