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    Welcome To SHOOT’s Fall 2019 Directors Series>e.dition

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    Welcome to the Special Fall 2019 e.dition of the SHOOT Directors Series. Our mix of profiles includes Marielle Heller who directed two Academy Award-nominated performances this year by Melissa McCarthy and Richard E. Grant in Can You Ever Forgive Me?, and is now generating Oscar buzz for the soon-to-be released A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood starring Tom Hanks as Fred Rogers. 

    Also in the awards season conversation are such SHOOT profile subjects as: Bong Joon Ho for the feature Parasite, which won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival back in May and is South Korea’s recently announced entry for the best international feature film Oscar; Lulu Wang who made a major splash at the Sundance Film Festival with The Farewell starring Awkwafina; Robert Eggers for the acclaimed The Lighthouse starring Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson; and Chinonye Chukwu whose Clemency won the Grand Jury Award in the U.S. Dramatic Competition at Sundance this year.

    Already a two-time Oscar nominee for his documentary short fare, director Dan Krauss discusses 5B, his feature-length documentary which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival only to go on the next month to win the Entertainment Lions Grand Prix at the Cannes International Festival of Creativity. 5B is a breakthrough piece of branded content from Johnson & Johnson that Krauss directed through Saville Productions, which reps him for commercials and branded entertainment. Named after San Francisco General Hospital’s ward 5B which opened in 1983 as the first full-fledged hospital unit dedicated to treating people with AIDS, the documentary shows the positive power of nursing, continuing a theme which Johnson & Johnson has championed over the years.

    Rounding out SHOOT’s lineup of profiles is Nisha Ganatra who’s looking to make a mark for women comedy directors in the ad arena through Chelsea Pictures. Her distinctive brand of humor has been reflected in Golden Globe-winning and Emmy-nominated work on Transparent, as well as the feature Late Night which earned a standing ovation and rave reviews at the Sundance Film Festival. Late Night also fetched $13 million from Amazon, the highest price ever paid at Sundance for a film by a female director.

    Meanwhile our ensemble of up-and-coming talent consists of a filmmaker whose short won an Oscar this year, yielding a connection with a production company for her first commercial and branded content representation; a directorial duo who made an auspicious feature debut and then subsequently landed at a prominent production company to explore opportunities in the ad space; a director who scored impressively with his body of work at HBO’s Last Week Tonight With John Oliver, which caught the attention of a production house now handling him for commercials and branded fare; and a comedy-driven talent who this year became a DGA Award nominee and garnered a roster slot at his first roost for ad projects.

    And then in our Cinematographers & Cameras Series, we meet three DPs–one who reflected on a fruitful collaboration with director Alma Har’el on the feature Honey Boy; another who was drawn to the prospect of lensing an old-school cop movie, adding to a recent flurry of work which marked his return to HBO’s Westworld–not just as a DP but for the first time as an episodic director; and a lenser who reunited with director Andy Muschietti to turn out the much-anticipated IT Chapter Two.

    So read on and enjoy. And as always we welcome your feedback.

    –Robert Goldrich
    Editor
    rgoldrich@shootonline.com

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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.

    Long also tried... Read More

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