Vietnam’s Next Top Model (VNTM) continues to be part of the country’s enthusiastic embrace of foreign formats, including everything from a local version of Ugly Betty in the early days to today’s The Voice and Big Brother.
Now in its sixth season, with a new logo and tag line (“Keep Moving”), VNTM has gone from newbie to established franchise with production house Multimedia JSC for national free-TV broadcaster VTV’s VTV3 channel.
Season six (10x60 mins; finale 90 mins) premiered Sunday, 2 August, at 8pm. Like season five, this season’s live finale (11 October 2015) will be held at Quan Khu 7 Stadium in Ho Chi Minh City.
Costing US$100,000/episode and US$300,000 for the finale, VNTM is produced by a crew of 100 for each episode, with 100 additional crew members for audition and live finale episodes.
Auditions for this year’s series increased from two to four areas: Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, Da Nang (new) and Can Tho (new). More than 1,000 applicants turned up at each of the venues.
Season one premiered in Vietnam in 2010 and ran to January 2011. Production house Multimedia JSC says changes have been made every season to keep the series fresh. For example, male models were introduced in season four, making “the competition more fierce and cut-throat than ever”, says Multimedia JSC owner/executive producer, Le Thi Quynh Trang.
Season four supermodel, Pham Thanh Hang, is back in season six, and will also judge alongside designer Adrian Anh Tuan and photographer Samuel Hoang.
This season is the first time the format includes a live fashion show (episode two) while revealing the top 14 via press conference 16 July.
Season six’s top 14 contestants include a 1.9m aspiring model (the tallest girl in the history of VNTM), a doctor from an ethnic minority and a gay contestant.
“Our aim is to present Vietnamese models to global designers, photographers, magazines, and prove that Vietnamese models also have what it takes to become international professional models... We also go beyond on air and work with loc...
Vietnam’s Next Top Model (VNTM) continues to be part of the country’s enthusiastic embrace of foreign formats, including everything from a local version of Ugly Betty in the early days to today’s The Voice and Big Brother.
Now in its sixth season, with a new logo and tag line (“Keep Moving”), VNTM has gone from newbie to established franchise with production house Multimedia JSC for national free-TV broadcaster VTV’s VTV3 channel.
Season six (10x60 mins; finale 90 mins) premiered Sunday, 2 August, at 8pm. Like season five, this season’s live finale (11 October 2015) will be held at Quan Khu 7 Stadium in Ho Chi Minh City.
Costing US$100,000/episode and US$300,000 for the finale, VNTM is produced by a crew of 100 for each episode, with 100 additional crew members for audition and live finale episodes.
Auditions for this year’s series increased from two to four areas: Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, Da Nang (new) and Can Tho (new). More than 1,000 applicants turned up at each of the venues.
Season one premiered in Vietnam in 2010 and ran to January 2011. Production house Multimedia JSC says changes have been made every season to keep the series fresh. For example, male models were introduced in season four, making “the competition more fierce and cut-throat than ever”, says Multimedia JSC owner/executive producer, Le Thi Quynh Trang.
Season four supermodel, Pham Thanh Hang, is back in season six, and will also judge alongside designer Adrian Anh Tuan and photographer Samuel Hoang.
This season is the first time the format includes a live fashion show (episode two) while revealing the top 14 via press conference 16 July.
Season six’s top 14 contestants include a 1.9m aspiring model (the tallest girl in the history of VNTM), a doctor from an ethnic minority and a gay contestant.
“Our aim is to present Vietnamese models to global designers, photographers, magazines, and prove that Vietnamese models also have what it takes to become international professional models... We also go beyond on air and work with local agency BeU Models & Talent Management to seek chances for the models to develop their modelling career in both local and international market,” Trang says.
Vietnam’s Next Top Model is part of a broad business built by Multimedia JSC around fashion. Properties also include Project Runway Vietnam and Vietnam International Fashion Week, along with modelling and talent agency, BeU Models & Talent Management.