“Sand Creek Film Snags Another Best Film Nomination”

By dvasicek
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November 18, 2007
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

“The Sand Creek Massacre” Nominated for Best Native American Film”

November 14, 2007 — CENTENNIAL, CO — “The Sand Creek Massacre”, an award-winning (American Indian Film Festival, The Indie Gathering Film Festival) documentary film driven by Southern Cheyenne and Arapaho people who tell their version about what happened during the Sand Creek Massacre, has been nominated for Best Native American Film by the Trail Dust Film Festival Judging and Selections Committee and has been deemed worthy of a Golden Drover Award
http://www.traildancefilmfestival.com/2008/FilmDisplay.asp?ID=07-2092TD

Award Winners will be announced January 13th, 2008 at the Trail Dust Film Festival in Duncan, Oklahoma ( www.traildancefilmfestival.com).

Donald L. Vasicek, award-winning writer/filmmaker of Olympus Films+, LLC and producer of “The Sand Creek Massacre”, said, “Each time this film receives exposure, it makes the Cheyenne and Arapaho people’s voices that much more eloquent. The injustice they experienced at Sand Creek, not to mention the racism/genocide attitude that continues to stalk them in present day America, perpetuates their suppression as a culture and as a people. It is past due time for America to take care of their native people. The world should wait. We have our fences to mend to first, then we can better help others.”

The film is available via Films Media Group at Mailing Address:
PO Box 2053
Princeton, NJ 08543-2053

OR Email: [email protected]

OR Fax: 609-671-0266

OR Phone: 800-257-5126

OR Online by typing the item number (37436) or by the title. Here is the link.
http://www.films.com/id/13926/The_Sand_Creek_Massacre_Seven_Hours_that_Changed_American_History.htm

Vasicek’s web site, http://www.donvasicek.com, provides detailed information about the Sand Creek Massacre. There are also lesson plans available.

Olympus Films+, LLC is dedicated to writing and producing quality products that serve to educate others about the human condition.

Contact:
Donald L. Vasicek
Olympus Films+, LLC
http://us.imdb.com/Name?Vasicek,+Don
http://www.showbizdata.com/credits/85218/DonVasicek
http://www.donvasicek.com
email: [email protected]
303-903-2103

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About the author

dvasicek

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.

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