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    Tinygiant Signs Directing Duo Taylor Reid For Spots, Branded Content

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    Paul Reid (l) and Nicholas Taylor
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    Production company Tinygiant has added directing duo Taylor Reid to its talent roster for U.S. representation spanning commercials and branded content. Comprised of directors Nicholas Taylor and Paul Reid, Taylor Reid was founded in 2017 in Toronto, quickly making a mark in the Canadian market.

    The directing team combined Taylor’s rich background in documentary film with Reid’s experience steeped in action sports, including projects that have captured world-class surfing, snowboarding and skateboarding. Earlier this year, Taylor Reid directed The Joy Smith Foundation’s national awareness campaign, “See the Trafficking Signs.” The poignant and harrowing centerpiece film in the campaign educates viewers on the common signs that someone may be at risk of a being sex trafficking victim. “Trafficking Signs” was produced by Untitled Films, a Toronto-based company which continues to handle Canadian market representation for the directorial duo. Past Taylor Reid clients include Air Canada, EA Sports, Ford, Mastermind, Porsche, RBC Bank, Red Bull, Subaru, TD Bank, Yamaha and Volkswagen.

    Veronica Diaferia, founder and executive producer at Brooklyn-based Tinygiant, noted that Neil Champagne, the head of the company’s scripted division, met Taylor and Reid in Canada and immediately shared their work with her. “Now that they are in Los Angeles, we can’t wait to bring their talent to the States,” said Diaferia.

    “Tinygiant is an amazing and supportive team, I think they have built a company that represents what the future of production will look like,” said Taylor who added that “their dedication to creating award-winning work that matters makes them a natural fit for us. Sara [Eolin, Tinygiant partner/EP] and Veronica bring an optimism and excitement to production. That is something that’s very important to us.” 

    Reid said that he and Taylor’s automotive and action sports background are “a great fit” for Tinygiant’s roster, adding that they were drawn to Diaferia and Eolin and the fact that Tinygiant is a women-owned and operated production company.

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    Duane “Keffe D” Davis’ Murder Trial Heads To Closing In Tupac Shakur’s 1996 Killing

    Friday, August 28, 2026

    The murder trial of Duane "Keffe D" Davis in the 1996 killing of Tupac Shakur is headed to closing arguments after the defense rested Thursday following testimony from three former Las Vegas police officers.

    Jurors are scheduled to return Monday for closing arguments before beginning deliberations in the only prosecution brought in the killing of the hip-hop icon. The presentation of evidence ended after nine days of testimony.

    Davis, 63, did not take the stand.

    Shakur was riding in a BMW on Sept. 7, 1996, when a white Cadillac pulled up next to it at a red light near the Las Vegas Strip and gunfire erupted. Shakur was shot multiple times and died six days later. The driver of the BMW, Marion "Suge" Knight, survived.

    Years later, Davis would say he procured the gun and his nephew, who has since died, fired the shots. Prosecutors say Davis orchestrated the killing, and he faces life in prison if convicted of murder with a deadly weapon with the intent to promote, further or assist a criminal gang. He has pleaded not guilty.

    Defense attorney Michael Sanft has argued that Davis fabricated or embellished his accounts of the killing for money and notoriety and that investigators failed to independently corroborate his claims.

    Retired Las Vegas homicide detective Dan Long, the defense's final witness, testified that he tried unsuccessfully to verify several details Davis provided during a 2009 police interview.

    Davis told Long that his nephew, Orlando "Baby Lane" Anderson, had gone to a Las Vegas hospital after being beaten by Shakur and others in a casino brawl hours before the rapper was fatally shot. Long said he was unable to find hospital records confirming Anderson was treated there.

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