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Deadline for applications: 5:00pm Friday 6th August.

For Further information on Reality Bites, and to download an application form click here

Bord Scannán na hÉireann/ the Irish Film Board is delighted to announce the new deadline for submissions for the next round of the Reality Bites. Applications will be accepted until Friday 6th August.

Reality Bites aims to encourage experimentation and a fresh approach to short non-fiction filmmaking. The Irish Film Board are looking for something new in the use of the documentary form, whether the projects are journalistic or creative, observational or aesthetic, objective or personal. Documentaries can be produced in either the English or Irish language.

The Reality Bites scheme will provide funding for up to three films up to 12 minutes in duration, all of which will premiere at the Corona Cork Film Festival next year.

Recent successful Reality Bites include Bye, Bye Now, which was co-directed and co-produced by Ross Whittaker and Aideen O'Sullivan, and has been hugely successful on an international level having screened at festivals such as Athens, Vancouver and Krakow as well as the Silver Docs festival and Palm Springs Shortfest both of which take place in the U.S later this month. Anna Rodger's If These Walls Could Talk was awarded Best Short at the IFI Stranger Than Fiction and has also recently been officially selected for the Silver Docs festival. Alibi, written and directed by Darren Bolger, will be showing at the prestigious Edinburgh International Film Festival next week while Circus Man, written and directed by Jill Beardsworth and Keith Walsh, had its U.S premiere at the Chicago Irish Film Festival earlier this year.

All applications for Reality Bites should be sent with the reference REF: REALITY BITES on the envelope to:

Bord Scannan na hEireann/the Irish Film Board,

Queensgate, 23 Dock Road, Galway.