Taylor Alison Swift is an American singer-songwriter. She is known for narrative songs about her personal life, which have received widespread media coverage. At age 14, Swift became the youngest artist signed by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house and, at 15, she signed her first record deal.
Her 2006 eponymous debut album was the longest-charting album of the 2000s in the US. Its third single, "Our Song", made her the youngest person to single-handedly write and perform a number-one song on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Swift's second album, Fearless, was released in 2008.
Buoyed by the pop crossover success of the singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", it became the US' best-selling album of 2009 and was certified diamond in the US. The album won four Grammy Awards, and Swift became the youngest Album of the Year winner.
Franco Garcia’s ‘The Force of the Land’ Snags Peruvian Production Funding
variety.comAnna Marie de la Fuente Santiago Fiction Lab participant “The Force of the Land” (“Raiz, La Fuerza de la Tierra”), the sophomore feature of Peruvian filmmaker Franco Garcia, has won the support of Peru’s production fund, which awards a mere 10 to 15 projects a year.The drama is co-produced by Desfase Films and HDPeru, which have re-teamed after jointly producing a number of docs, including 2017 docudrama “Green River, The Time of the Yakurunas,” that screened at the 67th Berlinale, followed by New York’s MoMA Doc Fortnight and a slew of festivals across the world.A poetic exploration of the concept of time in three remote Amazon villages, “Green River..” marked the directorial feature debut of brothers Alvaro and Diego Sarmiento, founders.
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