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.
Mariupol Invasion and Ukraine’s Abandoned Animals Are Focus of Documentaries Acquired by Beta Film (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comChristopher Vourlias Beta Film has acquired international distribution rights for the Ukrainian documentaries “Mariupol. Unlost Hope” and “9 Lives” through its subsidiary Autentic Distribution, the sales arm of the documentary label Autentic, which is owned by the Munich-based production and distribution powerhouse.“Mariupol.
Unlost Hope” shows the Ukraine war through the eyes of ordinary people who lived through the first month of the invasion in Mariupol.
Based on the diaries of local journalist Nadia Sukhorukova, the film is directed by Maksym Litvinov and produced by Volodymyr Borodyansky.“The film doesn’t have any author’s voice-over, any narrative,” said Litvinov. “This is a film-truth with stories of peaceful people inside the war.
They tell them simply and without fear: what they saw, how they felt, what happened to them.” Describing it as a chronicle of the “systematic destruction” of the city of half a million inhabitants, the director added: “Anyone can watch ‘Mariupol’ and experience [the invasion] and find out what it was like there.”Elsewhere, “9 Lives” is a film about the volunteers who risked their lives to rescue animals from the areas that were abandoned in the wake of the Russian invasion.
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