By Cayden Wells, Lifestyle Writer
| October 16, 2025
The 20-year run of NIU’s independent student film festival, Reality Bytes, is now indefinitely paused.
Professor Laura Vazquez, the founder of Reality Bytes, stepped down due to a harsh workload, and the university has been unable to find a replacement.
The...
By Kahlil Kambui, Assistant Lifestyle Editor
| April 15, 2025
Movie and short film lovers are in luck as an abundance of independent short films and animations come to the big screen during the Reality Bytes Film Festival.
The Reality Bytes Film Festival kicked off from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday in Cole...
NIU’s annual Reality Bytes Film Festival returns this week, featuring student-made films from around the world.
Reality Bytes is a free event where short films are shown to the DeKalb community over the course of two days.
This year, the film...
