Now it’s not only Imax that sees its 3D movies screen south of the border.

Skeleton Girl, a stop-motion animated short film from Calgary-based Bleeding Art Industries, is set to make its international premiere at New York’s BeFilm, The Underground Film Festival on April 26.

Two years in the making, the Canadian short film imagines a world through the eyes of a young girl.

More importantly, Skeleton Girl was shot entirely in stereoscopic 3D, a rarity for Canadian film producers, and was not converted from 2D to 3D.

The short film also marks Bleeding Art’s first foray into creating and producing its own films.

Until now, the production company has built its reputation doing the special effects for CBC’s Heartland, Terry Gilliam’s Tideland, and many other films shot in western Canada.

“As anyone working in the film industry here knows, it’s very tough,” said executive producer, Becky Scott, in a statement.

“Creating Skeleton Girl was our way of trying to stay and work here, hire local talent, and venture into the new world of creating 3D content,” she added, echoing a constant refrain from Canadian producers that shift from service work to proprietary filmmaking to retain talent and creative inspiration.

Stereoscopic 3D calls for individual frames to be shot separately for the left and right eye, as opposed to being shot in 2D and converted to 3D later.

Skeleton Girl will be screened April 26 at the Disney Screening Room in Manhattan. It will then move on to the Hill Country Film Festival in Frederickson, Texas and be screened April 29.