Vietnam Young Lions announces winners

Two winning teams of the annual advertising competition, Vietnam Young Lions,  have been selected to represent Vietnam at the 2011 Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival, in France in June.

Twenty-six finalists took part in the contest on Thursday night as part of the Vietnam Advertising Festival 2010 in HCMC.

The winning teams of the respective print and Film/TV categories, Deadline and Yamasaki will be going to Cannes, while the runners-up in the two categories were The Contrast and H-T teams.

For the Media category, the first prize went to The Can Opener team and second to Eli-soi. The Can Opener will represent Vietnam at the Young Spikes 2011 leg of the Spikes Asia Advertising Festival which will be held in Singapore in September. All the winners that will join the international competitions next year will be fully sponsored to go abroad by Sun Flower Media Ltd., the country representative of Cannes Lions International Festival.

Young Lions Vietnam 2011 is the annual contest to discover and encourage young creative talents, who are studying or working in the advertising industry and media in Vietnam.

The teams participating in the Print category had 24 hours to complete their advertising projects on the computer, while the teams in TV/Film category had 48 hours to complete their entries with a dedicated camera and computer. The Media category’s teams had 24 hours to finish a media strategy within a predetermined budget, which they presented to the jury board last month.

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Football final party raises VND40 million for kids to swim

Football supporters back their teams at last Saturday' AFL Grand Final Party in Saigon organized by the Vietnam Swans. A rematch party will be held this Saturday in District 2 - Photo: Courtesy of Vietnam Swans

When the Vietnam Swans held their AFL Grand Final parties last Saturday the only winners were the kids in Hoi An who will benefit from the money raised to teach them how to swim.

The Grand Final match was a shock 68-68 draw between the two inner city Melbourne teams, Collingwood and St Kilda, and everybody left feeling as deflated as a flat football. But the kids in Hoi An cleaned up.

The party at La Cantine in HCMC’s District 1 had 242 footy fans and raised VND30 million for the Tri Bob Swimming Program for kids in Hoi An, while the party for the final in Hanoi with 150 attendees raised VND10 million. The swimming program was started because more kids drown in Central Vietnam than die in road accidents.

Phil Johns the Swans National President said the first thing that came to his mind when the teams drew was, “Oh my God, it was so exhausting organizing this party… How are we going to organize another party for next week’s rematch.”

He said despite it being a great match the draw result was a massive anticlimax for supporters of both teams, who both had good reasons to think their team was going to clinch it in the end. Johns said Collingwood had control of the most of the match but their poor goal kicking was very costly.

Johns and the crew have organized another party this Saturday at 10 a.m. at a different venue in Saigon while the Saigon Swan team members in Hanoi will hold it again at Jaspas, fourth floor Hanoi Towers, 49 Hai Ba Trung..

Everyone is invited to join the Grand Final Redux Party in Saigon at LesudGaudir, 4 Thao Dien Street, District 2.

Johns said the Redux Party will be chilled out with free entry and pay as you go prices. Dress casually in your team colors and bring your bathers if you want to jump into the pool.

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