The largest annual event of the
television industry will take place on December 20-26 in the Mekong Delta city
of Can Tho.

A scene from a TV series entitled “At the end of the rainbow”.

The festival will have the participation of all television
broadcasters in Vietnam.

By December 16, the organizing board received 754
submissions in  ten categories: programs for children, documentaries, long
reportages, short reportages, specialized programs, programs for ethnic minority
groups, music – dance – poem performance shows, dramas, television films and
trailers.

At the 30^th National Television Festival, the
organizing board will present 35 Gold, 48 Silver Awards and 120 certificates of
merit. For the first time, individual prizes for television films will be
presented, including the Best Director, the Best Actor, the Best Actress and the
Best Cameraman.

Television series is the only category for which
submissions are considered before the festival (from November 12). Each
television broadcaster submitted one series, with 10-40 episodes each. Nominees
consist of VFC’s “Silver Swamp”, VTC’s “Perhaps Because of Love”, Tran Gia
Company’s “At the End of the Rainbow”, etc.

The festival will have many exciting side-line activities:
a photo exhibition, an exhibition of TV technologies, four seminars with the
presence of many experts from Australia’s ABC channel, China’s CCTV, South
Korea’s KBS, Japan’s NHK, etc.

The opening and closing ceremony on December 12 and 25 will
be aired live on VTV3.

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