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"ASSASSIN TRAINEE" Written & Directed by S. David Acuff
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What Doesn't Kill You Makes you Funnier...

David Acuff is a Hollywood insider, a military brat, a comedian, a BMW murderer, cheeseburger connoisseur and divorced TIkTok’er. Based in Los Angeles, he blends heartfelt stories with Merlot-spewing-from-your-nose comedy honed over a lifetime.

With a Master’s in Cinema-Television, Acuff directed dozens of award-winning shorts including “Assassin Trainee.” He juggled many a corporate video job, wedding video bridezillas, and finally landed as a Producer-Editor at Disney. Yeah… that Disney.

He’s published seven books across sci-fi, horror-comedy and semi-memoir genres. He wrote and edited a feature film distributed by Sony and is now a seven time Academy Award attending photo ingester.

His creative work is fueled by a deep love for character-driven stories and the absurdity of the creative life.

books

Discover YOur NEXT FAVORITE READ...

Slay bells ring (2023)

A small town Christmas turns deadly when a hell portal opens and Dan Helsing has to face a fate worse than Vampires. His ex-girlfriend.

BATTLE TIDES (2024)

A retired mercenary battles his way back to earth to face a powerful enemy. But first he must regain his memory... and his body.

Semi-Centurion (2022)

What doesn't kill you makes you funnier. 50 years of comic observations in one Gluten-Free semi-memoir.

Wrestling Girl (2020)

A teenage girl recruits a broken FBI agent to train her for a fight no one expects her to win. Are you ready to get beat by a girl?!

Coming Soon

"The EDGE"

One story in five parts

Three sheltered rich brats of Skyberia are wrongfully sentenced to the Labor Camps in the lowlands and have to fight their way across dystopian American wastelands to uncover a deadly plot that takes them all the way to… The Edge.

films + videos

An A.I. Short Film

A Dark Comedy Short

Digital Comedy Series

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