Reality Bites is a scheme to enable the making of short documentaries. The scheme aims to encourage experimentation and the realisation of fresh approaches to non-fiction filmmaking

• Bye Bye Now

  

  Ross Whitaker

  Eircom's proposed removal of a number of phoneboxes from around the country sparked many fond memories in the lives of the rural Irish communities. Interviews and footage remembering the phonebox.

• If These Walls Could Talk

  

  Anna Rodgers

  If walls can hold memories, what sort of echoes linger in the closed units of our psychiatric institutions as they approach their demise? Moving through the corridors of these decaying spaces, we hear the traces of forgotten voices.

• Alibi

  

  Darren Bolger

  In a small Irish town a girl is brutally murdered. When questioned by police, Paddy gives his workmate John a cover story. Twenty years later John is charged with murder and Paddy's lie is now an alibi.

• Circus Man

  

  Keith Walsh, Jill Beardsworth

  Tom Duffy has travelled the roads of Ireland with his family circus all his life. His ancestors have made the same journey since 1827. Circus Man moves through Tom's memories as he fights to stay on the road.