A five-time New York Emmy® award-winning filmmaker and the owner of EPIC10 Films, Don has extensive experience as director, editor, colorist, and producer, crafting numerous independent film projects. Most recently, he directed Appalachia Heart (2023), a documentary film following visual artist Charmaine Wheatley painting portraits of individuals affected by the opioid crisis in rural Eastern Kentucky. The film premiered nationwide on public television and received the 2024 NY Emmy® for Best Human Interest Program. He served as editor on The Last Dalai Lama? (2016), a feature documentary directed by Mickey Lemle released theatrically across North America. He created, produced and directed the feature documentary Signs of the Time (2008), which investigates the links baseball hand signals have to deaf culture. Narrated by Richard Dreyfuss, the film was featured in The New York Times, aired internationally and earned the NY Emmy® Award for Outstanding Documentary. Casper also captured NY Emmy® awards for co-producing Turn The Page (2019) and directing Don’t Define Me (2020). He co-produced and edited the feature documentary, Women and the Vote directed by Linda Moroney, which won the 2022 NY Emmy® in Documentary Topical.

Don is an Assistant Professor at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) in the School of Film and Animation specializing in advanced post-production workflows, experimental analog film processing and documentary film production. He holds a BS in Film and Television and an MFA in Photography and Related Media from RIT’s School of Photographic Arts & Sciences.