Film London has announced the latest round of 12 filmmaking teams who have been shortlisted for the micro-budget Microwave filmmaking scheme. Six teams will go through to the next round before two films are finally commissioned in 2016. Supported by the BFI, BBC Films and Creative Skillset, the commissioned films will receive £100,000 of the total production budget of £150,000. This year’s applications exceeded Film London’s target of 50% of the teams applying having a writer, director or producer from a black, Asian or minority ethnic (BAME) background. 

The shortlisted teams: 

Amsterdam, Lisa Jacobs (writer), Tara Fitzgerald (director), Georgina French (producer)
Barefaced, David Cornwall (writer), Chester Yang (director), Adebayo Awolaja (producer)
Brutal, Ed Aldridge (writer), Scott Rawsthorne (director), Jon Shaikh (director), Amyra Bunyard (producer)
Looted, Rene Pannevis (writer/director), Jennifer Ericsson (producer), Jessie Mangum (co-producer)
Nocturnal, Olivia Waring (writer), Shan Ng (director), Robert Williams (producer), Colin Day (producer)
Real Boy, Liam Creighton (writer/director), Danny de Warren (producer)
Running Out of Grime, Dwayne Gumbs (writer/director), Iain Simpson (director), Benedict Turnbull (producer), Alex Williams (producer), Harri Kamalanathan (producer)
Samurai Sword, Lab Ky Mo (writer/director), Angélique Talio (producer)
Sick(er), Lucy Brydon (writer/director), Dan Cleland (producer), Jeannette Sutton (producer)
Treading Water, Lee Mattinson (writer), Samuel de Ceccatty (director), Manon Ardisson (producer), Chiara Ventura (co-producer)
Ultra, Matthew Hoad-Robson (writer-director), Rose Lewenstein (co-writer), Jacob Thomas (producer)
White Night, Charlotte Wolf (writer), Geoff Bellhouse (director), Chris Hees (producer)