Film London directly runs several production schemes - supporting local grassroots film-making talent, artists working with the moving image. Award-winning films have been produced through these varied programmes that were all introduced to encourage creativity and develop skills within London-based film-making communities.

Microwave is the most recently established scheme, which has already received industry-wide recognition. The micro-budget feature film fund provides an intensive approach to film-making and challenges film-makers to shoot a feature film for no more than £100,000 with cash and in-kind support. Recent successes include Shifty by writer/director Eran Creevy who was nominated for the BAFTA Carl Foreman Award for debut feature in 2010.

Short film-makers benefit from support through the London Borough Film Fund Challenge which is tailored to attract new talent based in the London region. Successful recent Film London supported films include the BAFTA-winning I Do Air, directed by Martina Amati, and BAFTA-nominated Rite directed by Michael Pearce. A number of Film London alumni have made the move into features. Recent examples include Tom Harper, director of BAFTA-nominated Cubs (2007), who saw the release of his feature film debut, The Scouting Book for Boys in 2009. Hong Khaou, who wrote and directed Spring (2010), is now developing his debut feature Lilting through the Microwave Scheme.

FLAMIN Productions, part of the already well established and successful Film London Artists' Moving Image Network (FLAMIN), offers a major opportunity for London's artists working with the moving image. Successful applicants are not only provided with production finance, but given guidance and advice from the Film London team as well as industry professionals throughout the process, from script to screen.