New Deadline Announced for Reality Bites scheme
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 July 5th.
Reality Bites aims to encourage experimentation and a fresh approach to short non-fiction filmmaking. We 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 between 10 and 12 minutes in duration. 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, Krakow as well as the Silver Docs festival. The project was also chosen to represent Ireland at the EU Film Festival in China in 2012. Barry Gene Murphy’s Two Wheels Good was awarded the Clare Lynch Award: Best First Time Director of a Short Film at the Cork Film Festival in 2012 and Ciaran Cassidy's Collaboration Horizontale picked up a prize at the Palm Springs International ShortFest, North America's largest short film festival and market. .
For more information on making an application and to download an application form visit the Funding Programmes section of this website.