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.
Saudi Arabia Officially Launches $233m Film Sector Financing Program Aimed At Local & Int’l Companies
deadline.comSaudi Cultural Development Fund (CDF) has officially launched its Film Sector Financing Program (FSFP) offering financial support to local and international film companies that want to get involved in the country’s burgeoning cinema industry.
The initiative, with a portfolio of $233m (879m Saudi Riyal), was first unveiled in early 2022, as part of the country’s $1.1 billion IGNITE Digital Content Program, and then teased again during the Red Sea International Film Festival in Jeddah last December.
The program officially launched against the backdrop of the film-focused the Ignite the Scene event in Riyadh last week, organized by the Saudi Ministry of Communications and Information Technology.
The CDF said in a release that the initiative is open to local and international companies and that its aim is to support the growth of a sustainable local film industry, by empowering the private sector with financing packages that support local content and promote filmmaking.
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