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Sofia Carmina Coppola (/ˈkoʊpələ/ KOH-pə-lə, Italian: [soˈfiːa ˈkɔppola]; born May 14, 1971) is an American filmmaker and former actress. She has won an Academy Award, two Golden Globe Awards, a Golden Lion, and a Cannes Film Festival Award. She was also nominated for three BAFTA Awards, as well as a Primetime Emmy Award. Her parents are filmmakers Eleanor and Francis Ford Coppola, and she made her acting debut as an infant in her father's acclaimed crime drama The Godfather (1972). Coppola later appeared in several music videos and had a supporting role in the fantasy comedy film Peggy Sue Got Married (1986). She then portrayed Mary Corleone, the daughter of Michael Corleone, in the sequel The Godfather Part III (1990). Coppola transitioned into filmmaking with her feature-length directorial debut in the coming-of-age drama The Virgin Suicides (1999). It was the first of her collaborations with actress Kirsten Dunst. Her films often deal with themes of loneliness, wealth, privilege, isolation, youth, femininity, and adolescence in America. Coppola received the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for the comedy-drama Lost in Translation (2003), and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director, becoming the third woman to do so. She has since directed the historical drama Marie Antoinette (2006), the family drama Somewhere (2010), the satirical crime drama The Bling Ring (2013), the southern gothic thriller The Beguiled (2017), the comedy On the Rocks (2020), and the biographical drama Priscilla (2023). In 2015, Coppola released the Netflix Christmas musical comedy special A Very Murray Christmas, which earned her a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Television Movie. Description above from the Wikipedia article Sofia Coppola, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Julia Butterfly Hill had a pretty average life (except for being the daughter of a traveling preacher) as a resuarant manager in Jonesboro, Arkansas. But in August 1996 at the age of 22 she suffererd a near fatal car crash. During her year long recovery where she learned to speak and walk normally again she had an epithany that she had spent her whole life focusing on material objects and her career. This in her words steered her life in a new direction and she decided to spent the rest of her life living in the moment and doing whatever she could to make a positive impact on the future. She embarked on a spiritual quest which let her to Humboldt County, California where a group of environmentalist we’re protesting the clear cutting of a grove of California Redwood trees by loggers. They had a plan to stop the loggers by having someone sit in one tree affectionately called Luna by the environmentalists for one week. Luna was one thousand years old, 200 feet tall and in danger of being cut down. When the enviromenrs asked for someone to volunteer Julia Butterfly Hill was the only one who stepped forward. So she ascended the tall tree and stayed there for 738 days until the logging company agreed to spare Luna and the rest of the trees in the grove. This is her story.
