Hanoi (VNA) – Nearly 500 works willbe competing at the 38th National Television Festival, which will be held in DaLat city in the Central Highland province of Lam Dong from December 19-22.
The event, the biggest of its kind all year forVietnamese TV makers, will be organised by the Lam Dong radio-televisionstation, heard a press conference in Hanoi on December 13.
The organising board will select the best worksin various genres including children’s programmes, documentaries, reportage,science-education, talk shows, dialogue, programmes in ethnic minoritylanguages, music shows, and TV serials.
A new feature of this year’s event is that moviesadapted from foreign works are allowed to join the competition.
In addition, a range of extended prizes for documentaryseries will be included for the first time.
As of December 13, the organising board receivednearly 500 entries, of which the reportage category continued to attract thelargest number of participants.
As part of the event, there will be workshops onsocial media and television, and solutions to using mobile equipment for TVproduction.
Other sideline activities include a freecongestive heart screening programme for children under 16 in Lam Dongprovince, a programme to present clothes to 1,750 children and 2,000 giftpackages to students in Lac Duong, Bao Lam, Lam Ha, Don Duong, and Dam Rongdistricts. –VNA