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.
BFI Launches New $17 Million National Lottery Audience Projects Fund
deadline.comThe BFI today published the full details of its new National Lottery Audience Projects Fund, a £15m ($17 Million) pool of cash available over three years to support growth in the UK exhibition and distribution sector to cultivate audiences for UK independent film and XR/broader screen work.
The open access fund was first unveiled in the BFI’s 10-year strategy ‘Screen Culture 2033’ and will support a range of audience-facing activities, including multi-year and research and development projects with a focus on projects aimed at growing the engagement of audiences that are representative of the UK population.
The BFI has said the fund will expect to hand out awards between £20,000 and £200,000 depending on the scope and reach of a specific project, with an upper limit of £500,000 for projects of exceptional scale and ambition.
To be eligible, applicants must have experience in film distribution, exhibition, or audience development activities in the UK.
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