Don Linder

A native New Yorker, Don is an international, award-winning scriptwriter who has lived and worked on five continents. His 2015 film The Last Executioner played in over 100 countries and on Netflix. It won the Tukata Tong Awards (Thailand’s equivalent of the Golden Globes) for Best Film and Best Screenplay, making Don the first non-Thai to win the award since the King began it in 1958. The film had its world premiere by invitation at the Shanghai International Film Festival where it won Best Actor.

His film The Cave, about the international efforts to rescue twelve boys stuck in a cave in Northern Thailand, also played worldwide, won numerous awards, and will open in the U.S. under the title Cave Rescue in late 2022.

In addition, Don has written Dark Karma for a British producer; Hmongs: Ghost People for a French producer, which was a semi-finalist at the International New York Film Festival and won the Bronze Award in the Beverly Hills Screenplay Contest; and Ancient Angkor 4K, a documentary about Angkor Wat, which was bought by National Geographic, for an American producer. He has recently completed a 6-part TV series, Lured, with Lee Miller.

Don previously served as manager of the Creative Writing Program at State University of New York-Binghamton, Programs Director for Poets & Writers, Inc., and Literature Program Director for the North Carolina Arts Council.

He holds a BA and MA from Columbia University where he studied film theory with Andrew Sarris, the originator of the “auteur theory” of film criticism. Don has taught scriptwriting in the U.S., Brazil, Egypt, and Mongolia, and currently teaches a film appreciation class at Payap University in Chiang Mai, Thailand, where he now lives.

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