HCM City TV to discover South America

15:04' 07/06/2007 (GMT+7)

VietNamNet Bridge – HTV filmmakers will embark on their first 66-day journey ever throughout South America to collect materials for a large-scale documentary titled Amazon Chronicles. The film team will travel to 5 countries in the Amazon River valley including Brazil, Venezuela, Colombia, Peru and Bolivia. Through Amazon Chronicles, Vietnamese filmmakers want to show a panorama of life along the Amazon in the past and present, cultures that have disappeared or are still flourishing, as well as historical and cultural values and the environment of these 5 countries from a Vietnamese perspective. Before Amazon Chronicles, HTV has also carried another ambitious international travel and cultural project called Train Chronicles, in which for the first time, a team of Vietnamese filmmakers, traveled to 15 countries in Asia and Europe by train to film a series of reports for TV. Like in Train Chronicles, while the Amazon Chronicles film team is in South America, brief reports of 8 to 10 minutes will be sent through the Internet back to Vietnam to be broadcast at 9 pm from Monday to Thursday on HTV7 as of July 2. About 70 reports during the journey and a documentary of 40 20-minute episodes after the journey are expected to be broadcast. After Amazon Chronicles, HTV will continue to travel abroad for its Discovery Chanel-style documentaries including one on the island country of Vanuatu in July and another called Ganges Chronicles in November. (Source: Tuoi Tre)