New TV Channel for teens

 

'TOP production House Campany' held a press conference at the Lao Journalists' Association on September 20 to release a series of television episode named Long Nam Khong ("crusing the Mekong'). The President of Top Production House, Mr. Viphet Sihachack, said " We are a media company that understands and sees the quick evolution of the economic, political and social situation in the Mekong sub-region, along with the consequences for its inhabitants, its environmrnt and culture."

"As part of the Mekong sub-region, we created this project named 'Growing up by The Mekong' funded by The Rockefeller Foundation, South East Asia, he added. "The main objective of 'Growing up by The Mekong' is to produce a series of television episodes named Long Nam Khong in collaboration with Lao Natinal Television (LNTV).

"One of the producers of the series, Ms Vannaphone Sitthilath, explainned that the objective is to increase Lao youths' awareness of relevant cross-border issues in the Mekong sub-region, demonstrating the value of global thinking, assisting the youth and local community in understanding the relationship between their village, their region and the outside world".

This TV magazine programme includes documentary, news, current affairs, travel, dining, and health segments. The Project started in January 2004 with the recruitment of a technical team, training in the process of film production, and organising production around a harmonious plan. The main difficult was to produce the episodes as scheduled. They had to contact the organizations concerned locally and internatinally, to agree on the timing and to arrange visits to the various sites, pending the availabity of the organisations.

Today Long Nam Khong has 32 episodes that are being broadcasted on LNTV Channel 1 at 8:25 and 7:30 pm every Sunday. The show is the product of dynamic young Lao people who are pround to present themseleves. Each episode will lead you to different villages and cities in the Mekong sub-region, spanning Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia, Myanmar, Thailand and China. You will see the traditions, culture and lifestyle of the people living in the region, too.

Long Nam Khong is presented in an entertaining, informative and appealing manner, with a non-judgmental and non-commercial tone. One of the producers, Ms Duangkea Bounyavong, said " We would like to thank the Ministry of Information and Culture, LNTV 1, and all the local administrative centers involved, as well as rural communities and non-governmental organization in the Lao PDR and abroad, who helped us to complete the project. Without them, it could not have been realised.

Source: Vientiane Time - 21 September 2006

 

 

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