About 3 Minute Wonder

Each week is thematically driven. The films are connected by subject, but they also have to be able to stand alone and be understood in isolation.

We generally keep about a month's worth of films up on the 3 Minute Wonder website, to give you a chance to view ones you may have missed.

"I'm actively searching for directors with unique perspectives who want to tell stories in new, exciting, non-traditional ways.

I'm interested in ideas that feel timely and connected to something happening in the outside world – for example, I was really proud of the week of films from Lihee Avidan and Mathew Heywood from the Aylesbury Estate in South London (on C4 July 2007) – they made a really clever comment on the 10 years that Tony Blair was in power in a way that was engaging and emotional, rather than dry political commentary.

It's also important that the trajectory of the films feels absolutely suited to the three minutes so the form and structure of the film is crucial to me.

Above all I'm looking for ways of telling big broad universal stories in miniature – for a very literal example of this, there was Little Worlds, a week of 3 Minute Wonders on dolls houses which played out at the start of July 2007 (directed by Sally Hewitt)".

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