The 38th National Television Festival (Vietnamese: Liên hoan truyền hình toàn quốc lần thứ 38) was held from December 19 to December 22, 2018, in Đà Lạt City, Lâm Đồng Province. It reviewed and honoured the best works of Vietnam's television industry in 2018.[1]
More than 1000 delegates from 114 television units attended the 38th National Television Festival. In which, 106 units participated in the competition. A total of 497 television works were submitted. The Reportage category continued to attract the most participating works (148 works). This is also a category with fierce competition among contestants with a wide variety of topics, reflecting the current picture of many localities as well as hot issues across the country in the past year.[2]
A notable new feature is that from this festival, dramas with scripts adapted or adapted from foreign literary works will be allowed to participate in the competition. This is also the first year that the documentary genre has expanded to include multi-episodes documentaries.[3]
The Festival is organized by Vietnam Television in collaboration with Lâm Đồng Radio and Television Station (LTV). This is the first time LTV Lâm Đồng has hosted this event. Many activities took place within the framework of the festival:[4]
At the closing ceremony of the 38th National Television Festival, the organizers awarded 30 Gold prizes, 56 Silver prizes, and 128 Certificates of merit to works in 9 categories. In addition, there are 3 individual awards given to actor, actress and D.O.P in the Drama category.[12][13]
The list below doesn't include the works received Certificate of Merit:[14][15][16]