15 Year Bond

SYNOPSIS 15 year-old Lily (Juno Temple) and her best friend Alison (Kay Panabaker) live on the shores of the Salton Sea among rundown trailers parks, rotting household items, drained pools and decaying streets. What was once an oasis for the wealthy and famous hasbecome a near ghost town, leaving its residents fighting for breath in the deep end. Lily feels eternally claustrophobic and rebellious, living with her manic, single mother (Leslie Mann), clinging to hope for something more exciting than visits with her young and already washed up Aunt (Kate Bosworth). The town is hardly a fitting backdrop for Lily, who is sprinting with unwavering determination toward adulthood and plotting her escape. And though Alison is content with her life, sheltered in their small town from the uncertainty of growing up, Lily hopes their strong bond with be enough to coax Alison to join her in breaking free from the constraints of their hometown. When they meet a few visiting street kids, the girls’ bond is finally tested and Lily convinces Alison to follow the boys back to Los Angeles. Not intimidated by the journey ahead, Lily is hopelessly drawn to one of the boys and the freedoms of their lifestyle. But in the big city, Lily and Alison quickly fall into the boys’ world of scams and petty crime. Lily is determined to stay and make it work, while Alison is overwhelmed and eager to return home. When an idea is hatched to use Lily as bait for men with money to steal, things quickly …

Swati Das andKolkataKalangan,Institute of Performing Arts (KKIPA) has been successfully engaged in imparting dancing lessons and performing dance programmes of both Classical,Tagorian and Folk genre for almost 15 years now. We are stationed at Kolkata. During these years we have staged varieties of dance performances all over the country. To foster all round development of budding talents of our institute, every year we organize Nature Camps around or beyond the city of Kolkata. In these Nature Camps students of our institute are encouraged to participate in a day long programme which includes planting trees, watering plants, painting pictures, singing, performing self choreographed dances or even enacting dance sequences from Indian films. Participation in the Nature Camp promotes in them an awareness about the importance of protecting and preserving the environment around us and the accompanying cultural activities develop a strong bond and unity as also team spirit and spirit of cooperation amongst them. In October 2008 , we have staged Rabindranath Tagores dancedrama Chitrangada(Incidentally Tagore is the only Indian recipient of Noble Prize in 1913 in literature , who has left behind a vast output of songs, poems and novels for which he is still greatly worshipped with reverence in India ,particularly in Bengal) in Kolkata. For the very first time German dancers of Berlin have come together with Indian dancers on the same platform to stage the very popular dance …