Organisers are planning the UK’s first 3D short film festival – Short and Sweet 3D – to run at London’s Barbican on July 16.

Organisers Julia Stephenson and Jordan Crute of Short and Sweet hope to make the festival an annual event and give further exposure to 3D shorts by subsequently taking the festival on tour in the UK and Europe.

Short and Sweet already runs a Monday night shorts screening series in London, and they are starting the new 3D festival to take advantage of the public and industry’s growing interest in 3D films.

For the inaugural event, the programme will include a diverse range of international content including fiction, documentary, music videos, live action and animation. Ten films previously selected by a jury will constitute the line-up and there will be an audience award. The event will also encourage discussion between the film-makers and the audience members.

The festival organisers are looking for conceptually innovative work. Crute tells Screen: “We wish to both foster and celebrate independent, maverick, cutting-edge stereoscopic film. We are aware of the constraints on filmmakers and value talent and innovation as much as slick production.”

Passion will be a key element. As Krute points out: “A lot of people who work with this medium do it independently and on low budgets. If you take into account the higher costs involved with 3D filmmaking, coupled with the challenges particular to any short film, stereoscopic shorts are created by people who have a real passion for the medium.”

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