Biography

Don Vasicek is the founder and owner of Olympus Films+, LLC, a global writing, filmmaking, and consulting company, in business since 1993.  

Don studied producing, directing, and line producing at the Hollywood Film Institute and at Robert Redford’s Sundance Institute. He studied screenwriting at The Complete Screenplay, Inc., with Sally Merlin (”White Squall”, “Short Circuit”), as his mentor.

Don has acted in 20th Century Fox’s “Die Hard with a Vengeance”, NBC’s “Mystery of Flight 1501″, ABC’s “Father Dowling”, and Angel Street Films LLC’s “Running Horses.”

These activities have resulted in Don’s involvement in over 100 movies during the past 25 years, from major studios to independent films.

His documentary film, “The Sand Creek Massacre” won the best film at three film festivals.  It was awarded the prestigious Golden Drover Award and has been archived in over 300 libraries in the United States. It was recently cataloged into Smithsonian Institute Libraries.  Films Media Group, the largest educational video distributor in the world, is distributing the film.

Don has also written, directed and produced “Faces”, “Oh, The Places You Can Do….”, acted as a writer consultant for MGM’s “Warriors of Virtue”, American Pictures’ “The Lost Heart” and “Born to Kill”, story credit for Incline Productions Inc.’s “Born to Win”, Executive Producer for Pamela Cuming’s film, “The Road Home,” and actor in Angel Street Films LLC’s “Running Horses.”

Don also has written, ghost written and published over 500 books, short stories, and articles, including his first novel, “The Real Ghost”, which won the Waldorf Best Book Publishing Award and has been published by Waldorf Publishing.  His podcast, Just Write It! is on iTunes, Spotify, Google Play, Amazon Music, and iHeart Radio and his writing blog can be accessed at http://www.donvasicek.com.