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Who am I?

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.

Interests

animals, cycling, elliptical machine, endurance training, hiking, jazz, physical and mental health, reading, running, some movies, sports, stretching, the environment, theatre, travel, true crime

Main Skills

consulting, filmmaking, writing

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Wildebeasts or Lions? posted on 12/24/2007

The National Basketball Association exhibits two kinds of NBA players.  One is the wildebeast. The other is the lion.  What do you mean?

I mean that there are players in the National Basketball Association's Denver Nuggets, San Antonio Spurs, Detroit Pistons, Chicago Bulls, Philadelphia 76ers, New York Knicks, Golden State Warriors, Los Angeles Lakers, Portland Trailblazers, Los Angeles Clippers, Seattle Sonics, Milwaukee Bucks, Atlanta, Miami, Orlando, New Orleans, and I apologize if I left anyone out, who cow towe to team owners, peer groups, and making money, glitz, glamor, being effeminate, etc.  There are also professional basketball players who cow towe to their concept of self.  They always go to their strength.  Their strength resides in their hearts and minds. They believe in who they are because they know who they are.  Money, team owners, peer groups, glitz, glamor, being effeminate, etc. are particles of dust when juxtaposing them to their desire to perform to their greatest abilities as a professional basketball player.

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Carmelo Anthony Needs To Grow Up posted on 12/21/2007

Denver Nugget, Carmelo Anthony, smiled when he was fouled by a San Antonio Spurs player during a game last week.  Meanwhile, a Spur rebounded Anthony's shot.  He whizzed a pass to a teammate.  The teammate passed to another teammate.  Then, a Spur dunked the ball.

I was trained to always get back on defense while I was playing in high school during the late 1950's, regardless of who fouled me, or not.  When the ball is not in my team's hands, it has to be in the other's team's hands.  "Get back!  Get back!  Get back!"  Coach Bill Gogan hollered at us.

Now, Anthony, his fourth year as a professional basketball, would rather be pissed off about being fouled without a call, lope back on defense, where his man, dunks the ball for two points, and smile about how wronged he was.  Well, check out any Detroit Piston, any San Antonio Spur, any player on any team that wins, and you will see them racing back to get on defense. 

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Donald L. Vasicek kicks it with Denver Broncos posted on 12/20/2007

Donald L. Vasicek, a Denver area resident, watched the first Denver Broncos' football game in 1960.  Then, the Broncos wore vertically-striped socks.  Vasicek, owner of Olympus Films+, LLC, an award-winning film company, has watched ever Denver Bronco game since that first one in 1960.  Vasicek said, "My brother and I went to old Mile High Stadium (originally known as Bears Stadium) on a cold, snowy Bronco-Kansas City Chiefs game in 1960.  We were unable to see fans in the stands, partially due to the blizzard, and partially due to the fact that hardly no one else was there.  In the end, the Broncos lost by a field goal that was kicked by the Chiefs tight end, a name that escapes me at the moment."

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Denver Broncos Fan Guts Squad posted on 12/19/2007

James Arthur, a Denver Broncos fan for the past thirty-seven years, sees the only way the Denver Broncos can compete with the likes of the New England Patriots is to gut the squad.  He said, "The Broncos need to replace ten players with ten topflight players. One linebacker, two defensive backs, four down lineman, and three offensive lineman are the positions which need to be improved in order to get the Broncos back in line for a Super Bowl." 

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