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 Redfords 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 NBCs Mystery of Flight 1501, ABCs "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 MGMs $56 million Warriors of Virtue, Paramount Classics Racing Lucifer, American Pictures The Lost Heart and Born To Kill starring the Charles Bronson of Korea, Bobby Kim, and his internationally-known director/brother, Richard, Incline Productions, Inc.s Born To Win, 20th Century Foxs Die Hard II starring Bruce Willis with Rennie Harlan as director, and Joel Silver as producer, Olympus Films+, LLCs Haunted World with Emmy-nominated PBS Producer Alison Hill, and Olympus Films+, LLCs 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 Festivals e-zine, Screenwriters Forum, Screenplace, Screenplayers.Net, Screenwriters.Net, Screenwriters Utopia, Spraka & Kinsla (Swedish), Inkwell Watch, and Ink On the Brain. Writing recognition includes Houstons WorldFest International Film Festival, Chesterfields Writers Film Project, Writers Digest, The Sundance Institute, The Writers Network, and the Rocky Mountain Writers Guild, Inc.

Don is presently writing a screenplay for a client, consulting with an accomplished actress who is writing a tell all book, and is raising money for "The Sand Creek Massacre"

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.