42 students aged 11 to 13 from six high schools around Ho Chi Minh City joined the Toto Filmmaking Class program which ended yesterday and is in its first year in Vietnam.

Formed in South Korea in 2008, the Toto class offers chances for young students to learn the filmmaking process and make their own art works. In Vietnam, it was held by the South Korean multiplex cinema corporation CJ CGV and MegaStar and planned to be an annual event for high school students.

At the course, the students were divided into 6 teams and were taught by local young filmmakers including Phan Gia Nhat Linh, Ta Nguyen Hiep, Tran Dung Thanh Huy, Roland Nguyen, Le Thanh Son and Nguyen Khac Huy about steps to make a movie like screenplay writing, arranging shots, designing posters and shooting.

“The instructors are young, active and know how to work with students. Learners are cute, confident and excited with the class. Students at those ages are suitable to be inspired since they have started to have ambition about what they’re going to do,” film producer Vu Quynh Ha said.

After the class, movies made by the learners were screened at the MegaStar Crescent Mall on December 6.