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.
On #MeToo Anniversary, Women Still Represent Just 25% Of Film Directors Working In Europe
deadline.comWomen represent only a quarter of all film directors working in the European film industry, according to a new study by the Strasbourg-based European Audiovisual Observatory (EAO).
The report coincides with the fifth anniversary this month of the launch of the #MeToo movement in 2017, which at the same time as sounding the alarm about sexual harassment in the film business also put the spotlight on gender inequality as one of the underlying causes.
Five years after that earthquake moment, achieving gender parity across the industry still appears a long way off. Covering the period from 2017 to 2021, the EAO study looked at gender splits within the key feature film positions of director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer, composer and cast. “Women are still poorly represented among professionals working in key roles behind the camera,” read the report. “In all categories, the proportion of women among active professionals is growing slowly and did not substantially change during the time frame analysed.” “Between 2017 and 2021 women only accounted for 25% of all directors of European feature films.
The gender gap was even more visible among composers and cinematographers, where women only represented 10% of the workforce,” it added.
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