happy 80th birthday rosemary harris

Happy 80th Birthday Rosemary Harris!!!

* First and foremost, a very happy birthday to the legendary

Rosemary Harris who is four scores old today! Ms Harris, we hope

you have a wonderful day and wish you our sincerest felicitations!

As they might have said in The Coast of Utopia, s dniom

razhdjenia!

* In other news, fancy becoming the next Santosh Sivan by taking an

internship with his contemporaries? DNA India gives details of a

one-minute film festival being held later in the year, for which

entrants send in - you've guessed it - a one-minute film. The

winner and runners-up will get the opportunity to work with the

'Bollywood biggies' as a result of this festival which the Before

the Rains director himself has a link to:

Here is an opportunity where a miniscule one minute video recording

... can actually earn you an opportunity to work with the likes of

Anurag Kashyap, Onir, Hansal Mehta, Pawan Kaul, Ramu Ramanathan and

Nishikant Kamat. ... [The portal] also has Sudhir Mishra and

Santosh Sivan on its members' list.

It seems this is a nice, open-to-all competition aiming to discover

some hidden talent out there:

The main purpose of the festival is to connect with budding

film-makers, ask them to pick up a camera and tell a story. The

main criteria to judge a film would be the subject and its final

impact on the audience," says film director Anurag Kashyap.

The icing on the cake is that you don't even need to own a camera:

The festival also makes an attempt to ensure maximum reach among

the film enthusiasts, simply because you can shoot your one-minute

film on almost anything, right from a cell phone to a digital

camera.

The festival will be held from December 1 to December 5, 2007. Visit

passionforcinema.com for full details. In the meantime, get filming!

* Something else which may be of interest to budding filmmakers is

http://www.santoshsivan.com/. It is a sparse but wonderfully

tranquil website presumably either run by Mr Sivan or someone

interested in his work.

* eBay meanwhile has a Utopia soundtrack CD signed by the man

himself, Mr Mark Bennett, and vocalist Utopians Felicity LaFortune

and David Pittu, if you scandalously never purchased one.

* Last but not least, Deborah Solomon's interview with Ethan Hawke

for the New York Times casually reveals the Utopian's great-uncle

was none other than Tennessee Williams! Starpulse meanwhile

mentions that Mr Josh Hamilton is among those being directed by Mr

Hawke in Things We Want. It is interesting how many ex-Utopians

have either deliberately or inadvertently paired off into other

projects!