Established in 1991, Hồ Chí Minh City Television Film Studio (TFS) is currently one of the leading players in the production of made-for television films and television series in Việt Nam which it produces on contract. Within the past few years the company has focused its activities on the production of the home-grown multi-episode TV series which are attracting a growing number of viewers around the country. New government licencing stipulations demand that Vietnamese films and TV series account for 50 per cent of those broadcast on national television; as a result both HTV and VTV currently require a total of 46 hours a week (or 40 episodes) of home-grown mini-series to fill their programme schedules. recent TFS series include Người Đẹp Tây Đô (‘The Beauty of Western Capital’) and the 52-episode Dòng Đời (‘The Course of Life’), which was set in the years from 1958 to 1986 and tells the story of a woman called Nam whose personal hardships and loves intermesh with the country’s political and economic changes.