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“Dance With Life Magazine Underscores Sand Creek Massacre Film”
February 6, 2009 - Centennial, CO - “Dance With Life” magazine, an e-zine that highlights people who have joined the dance with life, highlighted the Sand Creek Massacre and award-winning writer/filmmaker/consultant, Donald L. Vasicek’s award-winning documentary short, “The Sand Creek Massacre”. Tomaca Govan, publisher, says, “It is with great sadness that we post this video. The Sand Creek Massacre was just one incident from the centuries-long genocide of the native peoples in America. And, it continues to this day. We commend Don Vasicek for his work in accurately documenting this historical event and for his work to bring attention to the atrocities that have and continue to face this entire race of people in America.”
Vasicek says, “Ms. Govan and “Dance With Life Magazine” have joined our journey to inform, to educate, and to create awareness for America’s indigenous people. It is with deep gratitude that I thank them.”
Govan, singer, songwriter, entertainer and host to several Internet e-zines including “Dance With Life” magazine, with a production company and music label, says, “We highlight people who have joined the dance with life. They are living and growing. They respect and appreciate the impact their lives have on others. And, there’s somewhat of an understanding of their purpose. We are all vehicles and conduits for something greater than ourselves.”
Vasicek added, “There are those who have confronted me about ‘dragging down’ the Cheyenne and Arapaho people by focusing on what happened to them at Sand Creek. The profundity of perceiving ourselves as vehicles, conduits, or as I say, channels, to help each other out, helps strengthen the link all of us have to each other, a collective consciousness that powers our world. Sit and interview Cheyenne and Arapaho people, go with them to their activities. You will discover that giving them a channel with which to tell their stories is giving them an outlet for the heartbreak they continue to experience over what happened to their ancestors at Sand Creek. After one on camera interview, I gave a Cheyenne man a bag of tobacco and a serape, something the Chief told me I should do, as an expression of gratitude. The man was over six feet tall. He wore a white Stetson. He had a booming voice. He folded the serape and placed it on the floor in front of my feet. He sat the tobacco on the serape. He got down on his knees facing me. He began bowing and singing in Cheyenne. The fine point of this is that he was grateful for the opportunity to relieve himself of his grief by giving us his truth. How do you feel if you are able to tell someone about your grief? This, to me, is helping Cheyenne and Arapaho move forward because it is giving them an opportunity to tell their truth about genocide, a first hand account of genocide, something that they have held back for nearly 145 years. If that’s dragging them down, then so be it. I see the light in each Cheyenne and Arapaho person I have interviewed. That is solace enough for me.”
“Dance With Life” magazine is at http://dancewithlifemagazine.com, Ms. Govan at http://TGovan.com.
Contact:
Donald L. Vasicek
Olympus Films+, LLC
“Commitment to Professionalism”
Writing/Filmmaking/Consulting
http://www.donvasicek.com
dvasicek@earthlink.net
303-903-2103
“Award-Winning Writer/Filmmaker Donald L. Vasicek Aligns With ‘Digital Cinema Report’”
November 13, 2008 - Centennial, CO - Award-winning writer/filmmaker Donald L. Vasicek has agreed with “Digital Cinema Report” to write a bi-monthly column.
Vasicek, writer, director and producer of “The Sand Creek Massacre”, winner of the prestigious Golden Drover Award and three other best film film festival awards as well as numerous writing awards including the Rocky Mountain Writer’s Guild Writing Award, will focus on writing about writing and filmmaking.
Vasicek said, “It’s an honor to be associated with ‘Digital Cinema Report’. ‘Digital Cinema Report’ is a dynamic and forward-informing publication that keeps everyone involved in the film business from artists to distributors and beyond with
current news that is informative and educational, cutting edge for today’s media technology.”
“Digital Cinema Report” is an online source available 24/7 that provides an in-depth and informed global perspective on all of the incredible business and technology changes that are currently taking place in every phase of the entire moviemaking and exhibition process.
Editor & Publisher Nick Dager of “Digital Cinema Report” is an award-winning journalist who has reported on film and television production for more than twenty years. He was senior editor at “Millimeter” magazine where he chronicled the gradual shift in professional production from film cameras to video cameras, the founding editor of “Post” magazine where he detailed the early days of the transition from linear to non-linear editing, and as the editor of “AV Video Multimedia Producer” magazine, he reported on the increasing importance of dynamic media in the global communications strategies of Fortune 500 companies.
Dager says, “Every phase of the way that movies are made and shown is undergoing a total transformation from analog to digital. We believe that there are no islands in the digital world. It is essential that professionals working in moviemaking have an understanding of and an appreciation for all aspects of the process from acquisition to display.”
More than 30,000 unique visitors read “Digital Cinema Report” every month. They include producers, directors, cinematographers, color correction artists, editors, distribution executives and exhibitors. They are the key industry decision-makers in more than 100 countries around the world. In short they are the people who are leading this historic global transition.
“Digital Cinema Report” is at http://digitalcinemareport.com/.
Contact:
Donald L. Vasicek
Olympus Films+, LLC
http://www.donvasicek.com
dvasicek@earthlink.net
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Press Release: “Award-Winning Writer/Filmmaker Donald L. Vasicek Launches ‘Ghosts of Sand Creek’
“Award-Winning Sand Creek Massacre Film Archived”
August 27, 2008 — CENTENNIAL, CO — Golden Drover Award
winner for Best Native American Film in the Trail Dance Film
Festival, “The Sand Creek Massacre”, has been archived in
The Billie Jean Baguley Library and in the Heard Museum in
Phoenix.
Award-winning Writer/Filmmaker/Consultant, Donald L. Vasicek,
said, “By having the film archived in these prestigious institutions,
my goal of informing, educating and creating awareness for the
Cheyenne and Arapaho people via their oral histories in the film,
helps all American native people. The Cheyenne and Arapaho
people, vowed, after the Sand Creek Massacre, that they would live
on this earth forever. The film keeps their dream alive regardless
of the genocide that has stalked all American native people from
the inception of European people’s arrival on their lands to the present.
The film is a permanent recording of their ancestors and who they are as
a people.”
Vasicek continues his efforts to record the Cheyenne and Arapaho
history. He has placed, “Ghosts of Sand Creek”, a two-hour, six
episode series, into development. Vasicek said, “Ghosts of Sand
Creek” will dimensionalize the Cheyenne and Arapaho people’s
story. It will show the white man’s continuing invasion of their human
rights.
“I read recently where actor Brad Pitt raised $500,000 for
people in Darfur. He should now raise money for American native
people so that they can also eat. Walk down the main street
in Lame Deer, Montana, on the Northern Cheyenne’s reservation.
Cruise the Northern Arapaho Wind River Reservation in Wyoming.
American natives on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota
need groceries, socks, underwear, shirts, shoes, trousers, fuel to
keep warm, etc. And they have to go across the border into
Nebraska to buy liquor. You will experience, as I have, many times
over, the abject poverty American natives experience. This is
genocide at its finest in all centuries.”
Vasicek said, “America’s native people need America’s help. Be part
of ‘Ghosts of Sand Creek’.” Go to donvasicek.com for details.
Contact:
Donald L. Vasicek
Olympus Films+, LLC
http://www.donvasicek.com
dvasicek@earthlink.net
Award-Winning Writer/Filmmaker Donald L. Vasicek Launches New Sand Creek Massacre Website
USA (SANEPR.com) May 22, 2008 — Award-winning filmmaker, Donald L. Vasicek, has launched a new Sand Creek Massacre website. Titled, “The Sand Creek Massacre”, the site contains in depth witness accounts of the massacre, the award-winning Sand Creek Massacre trailer for viewing, the award-winning Sand Creek Massacre documentary short for viewing, the story of the Sand Creek Massacre, and a Shop to purchase Sand Creek Massacre DVD’s and lesson plans including the award-winning documentary film/educational DVD.
Vasicek, a board member of The American Indian Genocide Museum (www.aigenom.com)in Houston, Texas, said, “The website was launched to inform, to educate, and to provide educators, historians, students and all others the accessibility to the Sand Creek Massacre story.”
The link/URL to the website is sandcreekmassacre.net.
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Contact:
Donald L. Vasicek
Olympus Films+, LLC
http://www.donvasicek.com
dvasicek@earthlink.net
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