Donald Vasicek

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Award-winning writer/filmmaker Donald L. Vasicek studied producing, directing and line producing at the Hollywood Film Institute under the acclaimed Dov Simens and at Robert Redford’s Sundance Institute. He studied screenwriting at The Complete Screenplay, Inc., with Sally Merlin, daughter of the famed Hollywood Merlin family of screenwriters and writers, as his mentor.

Don has taught, mentored, and is a script consultant for over 300 writers, directors, producers, actors and production companies.

He has also acted in NBC’s “Mystery of Flight 1501”, ABC’s Father Dowling starring Thomas Bosley, and Red-Handed Productions’ “Summer Reunion.” These activities have resulted in his involvement in over 100 movies during the past 23 years, from major studios to independent films including MGM’s $56 million “Warriors of Virtue”, Paramount Classic’s “Racing Lucifer”, American Picture’s “The Lost Heart” and “Born To Kill” starring the Charles Bronson of Korea, Bobby Kim, and his internationally-known brother, Richard, who directed, Incline Productions, Inc.’s “Born To Win”, 20th Century Fox’s “Die Hard II” starring Bruce Willis with Rennie Harlan as director, and Joel Silver as producer, Olympus Films+, LLC’s “Haunted World” with Emmy-nominated PBS Producer Alison Hill, and Olympus Films+, LLC’s “Faces”, “Oh, The Places You Can Go” and the award-winning “The Sand Creek Massacre” documentary film.


Don also has written and published over 500 books, short stories and articles. His books include “How To Write, Sell, And Get Your Screenplays Produced” and “The Write Focus.” He has been a guest screenwriting and filmmaking columnist for Hollywood Lit. Sales, Moondance International Film Festival’s e-zine, Screenwriter’s Forum, Screenplace, Screenplayers.Net, Screenwriters.Net, Screenwriters Utopia, Spraka & Kinsla (Swedish), Inkwell Watch, and Ink On the Brain. Writing recognition includes Houston’s WorldFest International Film Festival, Chesterfield’s Writer’s Film Project, Writer’s Digest, The Sundance Institute, The Writer’s Network, and the Rocky Mountain Writer’s Guild, Inc.


Don completed producing “The Sand Creek Massacre”, a documentary film project that includes the completed and award-winning documentary short, a book, a classroom video, Interactive Media, a study guide, and a lesson plans. The film is being distributed by Films Media Group.

Don is on the board of directors of the American Indian Genocide Museum in Houston. He is the founder and owner of Olympus Films+, LLC, a global writing and filmmaking company and a screenwriting volunteer on AllExperts.com.

Don’s screenwriting agent is Robin Kaver of the Robert Freedman Dramatic Agency, Inc., 1501 Broadway, Suite 2301
New York, NY 10036, 212-840-5751.

Donald L. Vasicek
Olympus Films+, LLC
http://www.donvasicek.com
dvasicek@earthlink.net
303-903-2103

Employer:	Olympus Films+, LLC
Position:	Producer, Director and Scriptwriter
Description:	Faces, Oh, The Places You Can Go, The Sand Creek Massacre

Employer:	American Pictures
Position:	Producer
Description:	The Lost Heart, Born To Kill

Employer:	Olympus Films+, LLC, Griffen Films Productions, LLC
Position:	Director and Scriptwriter
Description:	Haunted World

Employer:	Metro Goldwyn Mayer
Position:	Scriptwriting
Description:	Warriors of Virtue

Employer:	Incline Productions, Inc.
Position:	Scriptwriting
Description:	Born To Win

Employer:	American Pictures
Position:	Scriptwriting
Description:	The Lost Heart

Employer:	MVHS
Position:	Scriptwriting
Description:	Edgar's Cowboy

University:	University of Colorado System
Degree:	Sociology , BA

Articles:

Over 500 on writing, screenwriting, filmmaking, social and political issues

Books:

The Write Focus How To Write, Sell, And Get Your Screenplays Produced Success Unlimited Contact Rocky Mountain Legal Assistant's Association Fourth Estate The Colorado Society of Poets Grit Yearbook of Modern Poetry Colorado Legal Secretaries Association Denver Legal Secretaries Association The Journal (Writers Guild of America, west) Highlander Aurora Sentinel The Denver Post Colorado Family Physicians Writers Exchange FitRec Screenwriters Utopia Screenplayers.Net Screenwriters Forum Screenplace Moondance Interntational Film Festival E-Zine Hollywood Lit. Sales Spraka & Kinsla (Swedish) Ink on The Brain Screenwriting Inkwell Newswatch Screenwriting

Sports:	Running, hiking, endurance training, cardiovascular training, cycling, basketball
Hobbies:	Coaching Special Olympics basketball, traveling, jazz, classical music, symphony, theater, movies, reading
Awards:	Best Documentary, The Indie Gathering Film Festival Best Documentary, The American Indian Film Festival Best Native American Film, Golden Drover Award, Trail Dance Film Festival Excellence Award Videographer's of America (The Sand Creek Massacre) Best Film Philip S. Miller Library's The Bull Theatre Film Project (The Sand Creek Massacre)