Two programmes of screenings starting this month are kicking off the activity funded through Film London's new Community Pilot Fund.

The first round of the Community Pilot Fund, launched in late 2011, offered fixed grants of £3,000 to new community-based initiatives across London in a bid to encourage new exhibition, education and archive activity to reach new audiences.

Starting this week, non-for-profit film production company Chocolate Films is working with a group of 15 refugees aged 15 and 16 years old and living in Wandsworth, south London, to prepare a unique, fully-immersive and interactive film/arts event.

Young people from the Refugee Home School Support and the Klevis Kola Foundation will take part in a 10-week programme where they will research and develop a screening season of shorts and features for their community. They will be encouraged to research non-mainstream film, explore audience participation elements as well as design sets and marketing materials.

To mark the start of the project, Chocolate Films is hosting 'Out of the Ordinary', a free screening of world and horror cinema on 25 January at a pop-up cinema in the Brick Box in Tooting Market.

Later this month, biannual publication Little Joe Magazine is launching a monthly programme of screenings charting the history of queer cinema. Alternating between the Cinema Museum in Kennington and the Rio Cinema in Dalston, the programme will present works from across a range of film-making, from experimental cinema and television to found footage. The screenings, which are aimed at the local community and beyond, will be accompanied by extended introductions, discussions and social events.

The inaugural screening will take place on 31 January at the Cinema Museum. The first film will be Jack Hazan's A Bigger Splash, a groundbreaking documentary about British artist David Hockney and his circle of friends and lovers. The film will be introduced by Hazan himself, in conversation with Stuart Comer, Curator of Film at Tate Modern.

Find out more about Chocolate Films and the project, visit the organisation's website. For details about Little Joe's programme of screenings and to book tickets, visit the magazine's website.