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Jeanie Finlay @jeaniefinlay.com · 02/10/2026

Showing ALL RIVERS SPILL… to audiences all over the world has been deeply moving. I can’t wait for you to meet Stan and the costal community along the north east coast. They’ve been ignored for far too long!

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Jeanie Finlay @jeaniefinlay.com · 02/10/2026

Tuesday, screening of ALL RIVERS SPILL THEIR STORIES TO THE SEA AT Kiln cinema, London. Q&A with me & @rbrooks45.bsky.social from @privateeyenews.bsky.social. Richard has written extensively about the Teesside shenanigans for the last few years. 🎟️ www.glimmerama.com/allriversspill

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Jeanie Finlay @jeaniefinlay.com · 02/10/2026

Monday at @berthadochouse.bsky.social with q&a hosted by Patrick Carnegy docstowatch Tickets www.glimmerama.com/allriversspill

All Rivers
Spill Their Stones
To The Sea
A FILM BY JEANIE FINLAY
PREVIEW + Q&A LONDON
OCT 5
Bertha DocHouse
Director
Jeanie Finlay
Get your tickets!
glimmerama.com/allriversspill

PATRICK CARNEGY
Patrick has spent the best part of 8 years in documentary development, and in 2025 he founded Docs to Watch building an audience of 700,000 documentary fans.

"Anyone who's p*ssed off about the state of our rivers & coastline needs to watch this"
PATRICK CARNEGY@ DOCSTOWATCH
All
RIV
Spill Their Stones
To The Sea
A FILM BYJEANIE FINLAY

When a mysterious tide of poisoned sea life washes ashore on England's NE coast, grief gives way to a turbulent quest for answers, led by the unlikeliest of rebels.
A film by Teessider
Jeanie Finlay

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Jeanie Finlay @jeaniefinlay.com · 02/10/2026

Calling LONDON! #film people. I have a bunch of screenings of my new film ALL RIVERS SPILL THEIR STORIES TO THE SEA. All with Q&A Tomorrow at BAFTA with Eloise King for @bafta.org members. I believe there are 2 or 3 tickets left. Snap them up!

All Rivers
Spill Their Stories
To The Sea
A FILM BY JEANIE FINLAY
PREVIEW + Q&A LONDON
OCT 3
Bafta
BAFTA
Director
Jeanie Finlay
Get your tickets!
glimmerama.com/allriversspill

ELOISE KING
Eloïse King is a writer/director of Caribbean heritage whose work disrupts dominant histories, notably in her winning and BAFTA-longlisted debut feature The Shadow Scholars (Film4/BFI/Doc Society) EP'd by Sir Steve• McQueen. Supported by Netflix,
Firelight fellowsorps and BILFF Network, the tormer
VICE Global Executive Producer is currently directing a series for Sky and developing her debut fiction feature with Film4.

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Jeanie Finlay @jeaniefinlay.com · 05/09/2026

This is what happens when you programme by ai My new film was made in Hartlepool. About a fishing community in Hartlepool. Film is being released nationally, we’re booking cinemas across Uk. Guess where we can’t book? You guessed it. Vue Hartlepool “Too much of a risk” Help us convince them

All Rivers
Spill Their Stories
To The Sea
A FILM BY JEANIE FINLAY
POOL SOLUTIO
DO YOU WANT TO SEE THIS FILM IN HARTLEPOOL?
Vue, Hartlepool is not convinced there is an audience for this film, help us show them there is!
Leave a comment + share with your friends.
Thank you!

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Jeanie Finlay @jeaniefinlay.com · 03/07/2026

🚨tonight 6pm uk time🚨 free 1 hour film AMA session with me + you + other filmmakers I run these free sessions once over two months. Have been too busy to advertise so you’ll get more time Book your place, join from anywhere in the world. It’s a good time. www.jeaniefinlay.com/ask-me-anyth...

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Jeanie Finlay @jeaniefinlay.com · 28/05/2026

In April alone @eastmidsrailway.bsky.social paid out over £1 million in delay and repay payments. That’s just one rail company - they all have to make individual compensation payments That’s 53,834 people delayed AND aware / had time to claim Imagine if that £££ went on improving service

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Jeanie Finlay @jeaniefinlay.com · 27/05/2026

Managed to get all the way from Amsterdam on a train only to be greeted by @eastmidsrailway.bsky.social yay. No drivers = no trains. The only thing that makes this in any way palatable is filing a delay repay claim. Ffs

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Jeanie Finlay @jeaniefinlay.com · 23/05/2026

🔥 30 min Q&A 🔥 Join live or access recording for a limited time 🎟️ $20 ♥️ Subscribe to our mailing list glimmerama.com for a $5 discount

This wasn't just creative & critical success, it translated into box office, becoming the #1 theatrical documentary at the UK Box Office in its week of release, the #1 film on Curzon at Home and the most successful film on Jolt, ever.

The release of Your Fat Friend initiated conversations about anti-fat bias in the places where it is most keenly felt - from the home and workplace, to doctor's offices and airplanes.

Don't just take our word for it:
"The session blew all our minds... incredible - informative and unmistakably serious."
SAM WIDDOES - Entertainment attorney and producer
glimmerama.com

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Jeanie Finlay @jeaniefinlay.com · 23/05/2026

💅Your Fat Friend case-study incoming We’ve had so many requests for this so Suzanne Alizart have made our in person case-study presentation available for a live event. Learn something, get angry, have a good time: The creative, direct distribution of Your Fat Friend. July 1st 2026 8pm UK/3pmET

CASE-STUDY EVENT
Learn something, get angry, have a good time: The creative, direct distribution of Your Fat Friend
Www.glimmerama.com

July 1st 8pm UK/3pm ET / 12pm PT
Book your place now!

Amid widespread uncertainty for independent film Glimmerama founders - artist & filmmaker Jeanie Finlay and creative producer Suzanne Alizart • offer an online, image-laden, powerful case-study in resilience and tenacity.
glimmerama.com

Designed to provide inspiration for your projects, the case study will detail the direct, creative approach they took to connecting with audiences, sparking conversations and making meaningful change while distributing their feature documentary Your Fat Friend.

glimmerama.com

Inspired by the life and work of writer and activist Aubrey Gordon, Your fat Friend defied the odds and industry expectations to forge deep, meaningful connections with audiences around the world.
glimmerama.com

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Jeanie Finlay @jeaniefinlay.com · 18/05/2026

🦞In tears 😭 in love ♥️ angry 🤬 & hopeful 🙏 all at once 🦀 We love what Emilie Gambade said about All Rivers Spill… after the @sirharrysummit.bsky.social sneak peek last week. Were you there? Uk premiere June 12 & 14 at @sheffdocfest.bsky.social 🎟️🦞🦀 www.sheffdocfest.com/film/all-riv... 🔥#utb

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Jeanie Finlay @jeaniefinlay.com · 08/05/2026

Here’s the fabulous @tinabrownlm.bsky.social on why Hartlepool fisher, Stan Rennie’s story is the next MR BATES VS THE POST OFFICE. Follow us www.glimmerama.com/allriversspill

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Jeanie Finlay @jeaniefinlay.com · 18/04/2026

Tom was the best human. I miss him so much

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Jeanie Finlay @jeaniefinlay.com · 18/04/2026

This @recordstoreday.bsky.social I’m remembering THE GREATEST and much missed record shop of all (don’t @ me) SOUND IT OUT. Here’s a scene from the film I made there. Watch the full film here vimeo.com/ondemand/sou...

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Jeanie Finlay @jeaniefinlay.com · 04/04/2026

🚨Nottingham🚨 Everybody to Broad street @broadwaycinema.bsky.social to see the rousing EVERYBODY TO KENMURE STREET I saw the film today and so good to hear spontaneous applause in the cinema afterwards. It’s showing all week. #supportdocumentary #nottingham

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Jeanie Finlay @jeaniefinlay.com · 29/03/2026

Great to see a whole new audience connecting with my 2013 film THE GREAT HIP HOP HOAX on Netflix. The fiction based on the same story, directed by James McAvoy hits cinemas April 10th.

+he
Oreat hiP, hop noax
A FILM BY
JEANIE FINLAY
ANDREW JONES
"FASCINATING AND FURIOUSLY
FUNNY"

the Oreat
hIP,hop
nody
A FILM BY
JEANIE FINLAY
RUSSELL DEAN
"TIGHTLY TOLD.
MASSIVELY
ENTERTAINING"

-he
OreaT
noax
A FILM BY
JEANIE FINLAY
CHRISTINE TAIT
"HOW CAN YOU LOOK AT THESE TWO AND NOT THINK THEY'RE SCOTTISH"

the great hiP,hop
nody
A FILM BY
JEANIE FINLAY
CC
"TOLD WITH IMMENSE COMPASSION.
A STUDY ABOUT LIES, WHAT DRIVES PEOPLE TO BE SOMETHING THEY AREN'T, AND WHY IT ALL MATTERS."

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Jeanie Finlay @jeaniefinlay.com · 14/03/2026

Very excited to build on the work we did in the creative release of @yrfatfriendfilm.bsky.social

SCREENDAILY
EXCLUSIVE: UK filmmaker Jeanie Finlay has set up Glimmerama, a creative distribution arm to her documentary production company Glimmer Films.
Glimmerama is designed to connect documentary films directly with audiences through innovative release strategies. Finlay will lead as head of creative distribution and creative producer.
She will be joined by Suzanne Alizart as head of business affairs and creative producer. Alizart previously worked as director of operations and business affairs at Doc Society.

SCREENDAILY
Glimmerama will kick off its activities with Finlay's All Rivers Spill Their Stories To The Sea, which has its world premiere in the F:Act competition at CPH:DOX on
Tuesday, March 17.
All River Spill
their stories
To the sea A FILM BYJEANIE FINLAY
Set on the coast of North East England, the documentary follows veteran fisherman Stan Rennie, who becomes an unlikely activist after poisoned crabs and lobsters devastate his community's livelihood.
Charlie Phillips and Finlay are producers on the film, which received BFI Doc Society and Screen Scotland backing, plus support from Chicken & Egg, Secret Sauce, Arte and SWR.

SCREENDAILY
"Filmmaking doesn't stop when the credits roll. I see the release of a film as another creative part of the storytelling."
JEANIE FINLAY

SCREENDAILY
< UK GLOBAL
• SCREEN FUND. Bfi.
Departments for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
Glimmerama will start by releasing documentaries roduced by Finlay's Glimmer Films; then aims to select a roster of new titles, prioritising those by filmmakers from marginalised backgrounds. The Glimmerama expansion is backed by the UK Global Screen Fund.

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Jeanie Finlay @jeaniefinlay.com · 14/03/2026

Big news in Screen - Suzanne Alizart and I have launched GLIMMERAMA - the creative distribution arm of my production company Glimmerama Films. Film made with heart & care - for participants, for crew, for audiences. From Nottingham for the world. Thank you BFI Global Screen fund for your backing

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Jeanie Finlay @jeaniefinlay.com · 12/03/2026

Stan Rennie are you ready for your closeup? ALL RIVERS SPILL… makes its Hollywood Reporter debut just 5 days before our film takes its maiden voyage at CPH:DOX. 🦞🦀 Check out their interview where I talk lessons learned on my 10th feature. Including helming a fishing boat 🚤

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Jeanie Finlay @jeaniefinlay.com · 15/02/2026

🦞ALL RIVERS SPILL THEIR STORIES TO THE SEA The North-East of England, where the river meets the sea. Stan Rennie is the last of a long line of fishermen who have worked the same stretch of coastline for centuries. When a vast tide of poisoned crabs & lobsters washes ashore like a biblical plague

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Jeanie Finlay @jeaniefinlay.com · 15/02/2026

It’s 15 years since I made SOUND IT OUT about the last record shop in #Teesside - and now I’m coming home with my 10th feature, premiering in competition at CPHdox I can’t wait for you to meet Stan and the fishers of Hartlepool in this intimate and urgent portrait, filled with North East humour.

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Jeanie Finlay @jeaniefinlay.com · 29/12/2025

A few last days to watch Panto! for free (until Jan 1st) I’ve had so many lovely message from people watching and loving the film. Www.jeaniefinlay.com/pantoforfree

Oh wow. Loved the Panto Jeannie.
Particularly the potty mouthed stage
manager

Panto!: 1 laughed, I cried, laughed and cried at the same time, and was singing along by the end - Wonderful? Oh yes it is! You captured everyone's story so beautifully-
Thank you, Jeanie

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Jeanie Finlay @jeaniefinlay.com · 22/12/2025

My Christmas gift - panto for FREE 🌟♥️🌟 10 yrs ago I made Panto! for BBCStoryville. A feature doc about an am-dram group staging a panto - Puss in Boots at the Nottingham Arts Theatre. A tiny budget, a punishing schedule & a ramshackle donkey costume are just some of the challenges they face

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Jeanie Finlay @jeaniefinlay.com · 28/07/2025

It is deeply strange to see images that I filmed, that would not exist if if hadn’t absolutely insisted that they were filmed, racking up tens of millions of views. I can remember leaving the shot on Emilia’s face, trying to hold focus.

A collection of screenshots of the actors of Game Of Thrones at the table read for season 8.

It’s is a screenshot of a tweet that says the following:

•anni•
@ann1pjo
Follow
@buckleysibling • 1d
i wonder if actors ever read scripts and think damn that's going to piss our fans off
14:33 • 27/07/2025 • 37M Views

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Jeanie Finlay @jeaniefinlay.com · 13/07/2025

Joining Belters Choir this year has been a total joy. Come to our concert on Saturday - Songs in The Tunnel £8 on the door In aid of Emmanuel House. #nottingham

A hand drawn poster for

BELTERS CHOIR
Songs in the tunnel 2025
Saturday 19th July
6.30pm
Tickets &
£8
Venue: The Park Tunnel of Derby Rd, nottingham
All proceedsto Emmanuel House
Support centre for Homeless People
* Licensed Bar * savoury snacks

You'll find us in The Park Tunnel, The Park, Nottingham.
Entrance 1 through 33 Derby Road,
NG1 5AW has some steps with on street parking.
Entrance 2 via The Ropewalk NG1 5DU.
Has a large steep staircase, with on street parking.
Entrance 3 via Tennis Mews NG7 1EX, for those with access requirements.
Step free with Blue Badge only parking.
We will have a reserved wheelchair accessible seating area.

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Jeanie Finlay @jeaniefinlay.com · 05/07/2025

Really loved this far reaching conversation with Barbara Twist for Dear Producer outlining why I don’t want to just ~birth~ the film, I want to raise the baby www.dearproducer.com/p/jeanie-fin...

Some sepia toned passport photos of Jeanie Finlay - a white lady with hair in a chignon. She is wearing a black leather jacket and smiling at the camera.

Pink overlaid text - “"AT A TIME OF AI SLOP, THE HAND-CRAFTED TOUCH FEELS LIKE REBELLION”

JEANIE FINLAY & BARBARA TWIST
For Dear Producer

"IF YOU EMBRACE THAT EVERYTHING THAT
TOUCHES YOUR FILM IS THE WORK, THEN HI
BECOMES A REALLY CREATIVE OF PORTUNITY."
JEANIE FINLAY X BARBARA TWIST
For DEAR PRODUCER,

"THE STREET ART IS THE FILM. THE STICKER IS THE FILM, THE POSTER IS THE FILM."
DEAR
JEANIE FINLAY X BARBARA TWIST
Dear PRODUCER

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Jeanie Finlay @jeaniefinlay.com · 29/06/2025

More info about Glimmer-ama, my free ~ask me anything~ sessions for filmmakers. 1st session July 3rd 6.30pm uk Tell your people! ♥️

ask me anything - @jeaniefinlay www.jeaniefinlay.com

Filmmaker
AMA & Meetup Thu 3 July 6.30-7.30 pm UK
Limited Spaces
Free
@jeaniefinlay / jeaniefinlay.com

How much does it cost?
Nothing!
just ask you to listen to me & vour fellow filmmakers and bring curiosity 8 generosity
@jeaniefinlay / jeaniefinlay.com

I can offer you candor. 20 years experience in film. a group of fellow
Tilmmakers
and an hour to:
Ask Me Anything.
Bring a good question!
@jeaniefinlay / jeaniefinlay.com

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Jeanie Finlay @jeaniefinlay.com · 29/06/2025

It’s too hot for any of this nonsense 🐈‍⬛

Eddy, an older black cat wearing a pale blue bow tie hides from the heat under a bush

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Jeanie Finlay @jeaniefinlay.com · 28/06/2025

I’ve set up a new, free event for filmmakers of all experiences to gather and ~ask me anything~ First session Thursday 3 July 6.30 Uk time Book your place - www.jeaniefinlay.com/ask-me-anyth... Why? Trying to make my tiny corner of film a better place Please share with your people. #film

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Jeanie Finlay @jeaniefinlay.com · 27/06/2025

I get that reasoning. But when you’re right at the front? Maybe it’s not as bad irl but I would be fuming if this was view of Self Esteem

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Jeanie Finlay @jeaniefinlay.com · 26/06/2025

Feels almost inevitable that the millennium dome ended up in an Adam Curtis film #shifty

The Greenich skyline at sunset with the words - “THE LIBERAL ESTABLISHMENT HAD DOMINATED BRITISH CULTURE FOR 150 years” - in white helvetica type superimposed over the top

The Greenich skyline at sunset with the words - “THEY NO LONGER HAD ANYTHING TO SAY ABOUT BRITAIN AND ITS FUTURE” - in white helvetica type superimposed over the top

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Jeanie Finlay @jeaniefinlay.com · 25/06/2025

Not saying I’m a film nerd, or that being based at @broadwaycinema.bsky.social has had an influence or anything but I’ve seen all but 3 of these @nytimes.com top 100 films so far. 57/60 ain’t bad www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Jeanie Finlay @jeaniefinlay.com · 23/06/2025

I have a spare ticket for @fatherjohnmisty at Rock City tonight. Would anyone like it? Let me know!!! #Nottingham

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Jeanie Finlay @jeaniefinlay.com · 14/06/2025

Spotted this gorgeous Shiba inu dog today. Me: “He’s so lovely, that’s the kind of dog I’d love to get. What’s he like?” Owner: “Honestly, he’s an arsehole”

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Jeanie Finlay @jeaniefinlay.com · 06/06/2025

Huge thanks to everyone who came to my #sxswlondon talk today - about the radical creative direct distribution of @yrfatfriendfilm.bsky.social If you’re interested, sign up to my mailing list - I will be releasing it in chapters. Www.jeaniefinlay.com 📸 MarBelle @directorsnotes.bsky.social

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Jeanie Finlay @jeaniefinlay.com · 28/05/2025

Hey @sxsw London folks - I’ll be there next Friday 6 June to talk about how in spite of quiet times at the box office, the radical, creative distribution of @yrfatfriendfilm connected deeply with audiences, sold out cinemas and made a lasting impression on venues www.sxswlondon.com/session/lear...

LEARN SOMETHING, GET ANGRY, HAVE RADICAL, CREATIVE DISTRIBÚTION OF YOUR FAT FRIEND
LOCATION
Rich Mix (Rich Mix Stage 2)
DATE & TIME
June 6, 2025, 12:40 - 1:10 PM

LEARN SOMETHING, GET ANGRY, HAVE A GOOD TIME: THE RADICAL, CREATIVE DISTRIBUTION OF YOUR FAT FRIEND
LOCATION
DATE & TIME
Rich Mix (Rich Mix Stage 2)
June 6, 2025, 12:40 - 1:10 PM
Speaker
JEANIE FINLAY
Director
Amid widespread uncertainty in the independent film industry, artist and filmmaker Jeanie Finlay offers a powerful case study in resilience and tenacity-sharing the radical, creative approach she took to distributing her feature documentary Your Fat Friend. Inspired by the life and work of writer and activist Aubrey Gordon, the film defied the odds to forge deep, meaningful connections with audiences around the world.
SXSW
LONDON

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Jeanie Finlay @jeaniefinlay.com · 25/05/2025

Hey bluesky. Where does the best roast Sunday roast in Nottingham or nearby - has to have a decent vegetarian option and be available in the evening. Some Fanny for the algorithm Thank you!!

The inimitable Fanny Cardsock shoves a roast potato into her long suffering husbands mouth. He’s wearing a yellow lounge suit, her a plum shift dress, with full make up and drawn on eyebrows. They are surrounded by roast chickens

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Jeanie Finlay @jeaniefinlay.com · 19/05/2025

If you inherited a cinema, what’s your first double feature?

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Jeanie Finlay @jeaniefinlay.com · 04/05/2025

Thanks to @maximinalist.bsky.social for my free ticket to Operation Mincemeat today. Operation - respond to a stranger on bluesky and see a show with them - was a success!

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Jeanie Finlay @jeaniefinlay.com · 16/04/2025

Aroura alert right now in the uk but can’t see any in Nottingham!

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Jeanie Finlay @jeaniefinlay.com · 02/04/2025

I really loved Leo Scott’s film VAL (on Sky) from a few years ago. Such a tender take on Val’s health and the complexities of legacy. RIP Val Kilmer

A photo of the actor Val Kilmer, taken in recent years. He is sitting bolt upright in a blue chair, he’s wearing patchwork trousers and a red, satin embroidered (possibly nudie) country shirt with orange beads and a silver cravate. He looks like a new age statesman

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Jeanie Finlay @jeaniefinlay.com · 20/02/2025

Yes I’m religious. I believe in the holy trinity

Dolly Parton, Emmy lou Harris and Linda rondstadt bedecked in nudie suit glory line up as the greatest trio of singers ever assembled

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Jeanie Finlay @jeaniefinlay.com · 31/01/2025

I need your ICELAND recommendations. Headed there for a few days. A long delayed trip - we were supposed to go March 2020 and we all knew what happened there. Picture of the Premier Inn northern lights for the algorithm

A purple glow lingers in the sky. Is it the northern nights? No it’s the purple glow from a premier inn!

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Jeanie Finlay @jeaniefinlay.com · 28/01/2025

The incredible score that @taracreme.bsky.social wrote. Seeing it recorded live was a truly memorable experience. I love the way Tara’s music flows through the film. With Olga Fitzroy @daisycoole.bsky.social and more!

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