BIO

Don Sikorski began his career with his feature-length documentary RAP SHEET: Hip-Hop and the Cops. The film was bought by Universal/Screen Media Ventures and was released on July 31, 2007. Sikorski spent three years writing, directing, and producing the project that traces the story of a NYPD-FBI intelligence unit that had the Hip-Hop industry under surveillance.

Upon completion of RAP SHEET, Sikorski directed his next film ARTICLE 32. The documentary tells the true-life tale of seven Marines and one Navy Corpsman who were charged with a murder in Iraq. The group was coined the Pendleton 8.

In the summer of 2008, Sony Music contracted Sikorski to direct a documentary on Sean Kingston, a pop sensation. Sony released the film, SEAN KINGSTON: KINGSTON’S ROAD in 2009.

In 2010, Sikorski developed the TV series RANSOM CITY. The show follows an elite unit within the Phoenix Police Department; it focused on Kidnap for Ransom cases in Arizona that directly related to the Mexican drug cartels. Coined the HIKE UNIT (Home Invasion Kidnapping Enforcement), Sikorski spent five months embedded with HIKE investigators.

In 2011, Sikorski was named Director of Development at Big Fish Entertainment, which is based in Washington, D.C. and New York. Big Fish Entertainment’s DC Cupcakes on TLC was a hit for many years. In the summer of 2011, a groundbreaking, new series Bomb Patrol: Afghanistan aired with great reviews. The cameras followed an explosive Ordnance Disposal Combat Platoon’s training in San Diego, and actual missions in Afghanistan via an exclusive United States Navy Access Agreement.

In 2013, Sikorski was the Executive Producer of Black Ink Crew,  docu-series on VH1. The show has become an enormous success. Today, it continues to attract audiences for VH1, including a spinoff Black Ink Crew: Chicago.

In 2014, CNBC commissioned a series titled AMERICAN VICE, produced by Sikorski, which chronicled underground gambling in New York City and other illegal economies across major cities within the United States.

In 2015, Sikorski produced his first, feature film titled: The Infiltrator, starring Bryan Cranston, Diane Kruger, Benjamin Bratt, and John Leguziamo. Based on the book with the same title, the true story follows a customs agent, who goes undercover into the inner workings of a corrupt bank and the Medellin drug cartel led by Pablo Escobar. The film was distributed in July 2016.  Sikorski also is in production on Unjust Justice: The Jimmy Rosemond Tapes, a docu-series about notorious Hip-Hop Drug Kingpin, Jimmy Henchman.

In 2017, Sikorski was the Executive Producer for his second, feature film, City of Lies, starring, Johnny Depp and Forrest Whitaker. The film delves into the true story of LAPD detective Russell Poole and the murder of Hip-Hop legend, The Notorious, B.I.G.

In the spring of 2017, Sikorski was named Co-Executive Producer of LIVE PD, an A&E show that broadcasts live in six cities with six different police departments on Friday and Saturday nights. Additionally, in 2017, Sikorski was the Co-Executive Producer and Show Runner of a VH1 pilot called The Trap Chronicles for Hot Snakes Media.

Don joined the production of the documentary series “Biggie & Tupac” for FOX via Critical Content as the Co-Executive Producer in February 2017. It was an outstanding hit on September 24, 2017 with three million viewers.

In February of 2019, Sikorski was the Showrunner/EP of MTV: True Life Crime. This project was a one-hour documentary on the controversial death of Kenneka Jenkins inside a Chicago hotel basement. Sikorski produced for Left/Right and Banks Tarver.

In September of 2020, Sikorski launched a 10-part true crime podcast series called, The Dossier: the LAPD cover-up of the Murder of Biggie Smalls, with Global Media Entertainment/Action Park Media Group.

In July of 2021, Sikorski was named EP of Alex Gibney’s/Jigsaw title WATCHDOGS, a four-hour documentary inside the streets of Chicago, tackling issues around policing and criminal justice, for Discovery Plus.  In the Summer of 2022, Supreme Team premiered on Showtime, which was a three-part docu-series, and Sikorski was Executive Producer.