-Donald L. Vasicek
To introduce myself:
I’m an award-winning writer/filmmaker/consultant. Amongst many clients including writers, producers, production companies, directors, and actors, I have worked as a writer/consultant for MGM/Law Brothers Productions’ $56 million film, “Warriors of Virtue.” I also wrote, directed and produced “The Sand Creek Massacre”. It’s a story about how over 400 Cheyenne women, children, special needs people and elders were shot, raped, mutilated, and burned up by the Colorado 1st & 3rd Cavalries led by racist Colonel John M. Chivington on November 29, 1864.
“The Sand Creek Massacre” won best film in 3 film festivals. It received the prestigious Golden Drover Award and has been cataloged into Smithsonian Institute Libraries.
I’ve also written, directed and produced some other documentary films. I have written over 500 articles, books, short stories and poems during the course of the past 43 years. I am presently working on a narrative film about the hate that is engendered in race and religion in the United States.
I think the fine point of success in any endeavor resides in the passion one has for what they are doing. Without that burning fire inside of yourself, you will probably live in mediocrity, which by no means, is good or bad. It simply, is. So, as each one of you continue your life journey, take with you the fact that everything that you desire is contained inside of your brain. You simply have to instruct your mind to tell it that and off you go.
Peace and Light,
Donald L. Vasicek
Olympus Films+, LLC
The Zen of Writing & Screenwriting
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