'The Last Role' won 3 major awards MEDIA24H 2025, realizing the dream of making international films

'Vai diễn cuối cùng' đạt 3 giải thưởng lớn MEDIA24H 2025, hiện thực hoá giấc mơ làm phim quốc tế - Ảnh 1. — “The Last Role” by aeX Team won a hat-trick of three major awards: Best Short Film, Best Director, Best Cinematography.

The event not only honored outstanding young faces, but also marked a new step forward for the fast-paced filmmaking playground for young people who love cinema and media. The Gala Night attracted many guests including artists, journalists, businessmen, lecturers from colleges and universities, representatives of organizations, businesses... and participating teams.

Media24h 2025 Journey opens career doors for filmmakers

Different from other filmmaking playgrounds, Media24h is a real-time race. Teams must draw genres and cultural elements, then carry out each stage from script, production to post-production within 24 hours, while also making short videos to promote the film on social networks.

This year's theme "Saigon Vibe" poses a difficult problem: how to connect Vietnamese cultural materials with contemporary life while still attracting young people? The result is a colorful film season: from reformed opera, opera, conical hat, spring rolls, coffee filter... the plots are expressed through genres from comedy, romance to detective... all blend together, creating a multi-dimensional and moving picture of Saigon.

The Best Short Film Award of the Media24h Production Race 2025 is an international filmmaking opportunity with a 4D3D trip to Singapore. This is the first time a debut film within the framework of Media24h has achieved such a complete achievement - a big step from a 5-minute short film to the opportunity to exchange and produce in an international professional environment.

"We didn't think our first film could go this far," aeX Team representative shared at the Gala.

'Vai diễn cuối cùng' đạt 3 giải thưởng lớn MEDIA24H 2025, hiện thực hoá giấc mơ làm phim quốc tế - Ảnh 2. — Journalist, Film Critic Hoang Tuan, Editor-in-Chief of Cinema World Magazine, Head of the Jury: “With the challenge of randomly drawing topics and themes, I did not expect to have a complete film in 24 hours, but some films really surprised me because of their meticulousness, good techniques and professional storytelling.”

On the Gala stage, the top 5 best short films were screened and received useful comments from the judges, including "Bringing Mom Along" - Dan Team, "The Keeper of Sound" - Ae Homegrown Team, "The Last Role" - aeX Team, "Separation" - Our Twenties Team, "Am Huong" - The Action Team. Each film is a "creative crystal" crystallized from time pressure, love of culture and fresh aesthetic thinking. The young people may not have reached the level of professionalism, but it is the fact that they go beyond their comfort zone, dare to shoot, dare to tell, dare to make mistakes that has made them become true filmmakers who shined brightly on the Gala night.

Media24h is not just a competition, but a testing ground for young people entering the content creation industry, a launching pad for young filmmakers to find their own storytelling language. The third season of the Media24h Production Race has 56 teams with hundreds of contestants from universities, colleges, academies and young filmmaking groups.

In just 24 hours of production for the main stages, the teams have created creative short films, reflecting social issues, youth psychology and positively inspiring young people. MEDIA24H 2025 has ended but each young person has managed to write their own chapter of cinema, using the language of the times, personal emotions and the cultural core of the nation. The "Saigon Vibe" that you left behind is not just a film, but an inspiration for a serious, responsible and constantly creative career journey.

'Vai diễn cuối cùng' đạt 3 giải thưởng lớn MEDIA24H 2025, hiện thực hoá giấc mơ làm phim quốc tế - Ảnh 3. — Top 10 teams with films that made it to the finals.

The Media24h Production Race is gradually becoming an "incubator" for the future generation of directors, screenwriters, cameramen, actors... "The Last Role" is just the beginning of a longer, broader journey for a generation of young filmmakers full of courage and emotion. The competition is jointly organized by TRIHD ASIA Media Company, World of Cinema Magazine, and C.UP Academy, with the media sponsorship of Ho Chi Minh City Television (HTV).