Three college students from Hangzhou, capital of Zhejiang province, plan to shoot a film to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the founding of the Republic of China.

One of the students, Gong Yuanzeng, who is studying at the Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, said the three of them want to show the fundamental changes in the country during the past 60 years since the foundation of the P.R.C. through the eye of young people born in 1980s.

The film’s cast will consist entirely of college students and it will be set on their campus.

Gong is majoring in communications, and the two other students, Bi Lei and Meng Wei, both seniors majoring in advertising at the Zhejiang University of Media and Communications, have no experience producing movies. But they have started recruiting actors online and received a strong response: over 160 students showed interest in their plan and more than ten have already joined.

"It will be an unforgettable experience for me", one girl named Abao from local university said. She decided to sign up the day she saw the news.

They will audition applicants through online video, Gong said, adding that they need between 30 and 50 actors.

The actors will not be paid as the organizers have no sponsor yet, but the students said they have finished writing the script, selected the setting, and are borrowing video equipment from their friends. The three are confident that they will finish everything before the end of November.

By Guo Changdong