First Run Features has acquired
THAT WAY MADNESS LIES… for distribution.
​Opening in theaters December 14, 2018

“Most honest portrayal of how severe mental illness ravages families and lives that I’ve seen!”

- Pete Earley, author of CRAZY: A Father's Search Through America's Mental Health Madness 
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See our film in Los Angeles on
​Saturday, October 27 at 2 pm.
Laemmle Royal Theatre
11523 Santa Monica Blvd.
​West Los Angeles, CA 90025
Official Trailer
One woman and her family trek the broken mental health system in an effort to save her brother as he descends into madness. Beginning as a testimony of his sanity, his iPhone video diary ultimately becomes an unfiltered look at the mind of a person with untreated Schizophrenia​.”

UPDATES
  • Reel Recovery Film Festival screening: Oct. 27, at 2pm at the Laemmle Royal Theatre. See the graphic above for more details.
  • 9-30-18 First Run Features has acquired THAT WAY MADNESS LIES... for distribution. Our film will open in theaters December 14, 2018.
  • 8-20-18 MADNESS WINS BEST OF THE FEST AT CHAIN NYC FILM FESTIVAL.
  • The Montclair Local ran a story about the film on July 13, 2018. Click here to read.
  • Portland, Oregon screening:  7 pm Aug. 10 at the Clinton St. Theatre in Portland, Oregon. This will be a special benefit screening in Portland with a reduced, $5 ticket price. All profits will go to local mental health organizations. Director Sandra Luckow will be on hand for a discussion after the film. For more details click here.
  • Chain NYC Film Festival screening: 3 pm Aug. 17 at the Chain NYC Film Festival in New York City. Director Sandra Luckow will be on hand for a discussion after the film. For more details click here.
  • 3-18-18: MADNESS WINS HOT SPRINGS INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S FILM FESTIVAL BEST FEATURE DOCUMENTARY! See photos of our filmmaker, Sandra Luckow with the trophy at the festival.
  • The Sentinel-Record (Hot Springs, Arkansas) published an article about Sandra Luckow, the film and her upcoming keynote speech for the Hot Springs International Women's Film Festival. Click here to read.
  • Filmmaker Sandra Luckow's screening and Q&A at Columbia University on March 6 received a detailed review in the Columbia Student News Blog. Click here to read.
  • A review of the film was posted in the Yale Daily News after the screening at the Whitney Humanities Auditorium on January 28. Clear here to read.
  • Author and mental health advocate Pete Earley published filmmaker Sandra Luckow's op-ed on his blog on Dec. 22, 2017.  Click here to read.  ​
  • Sandra Luckow updated the film's blog.
Ojeda Film, Inc.'s film "That Way Madness Lies..." is a feature-length documentary about one man's paranoid schizophrenia, told in-part from his point-of-view with a collection of iPhone video clips he made before being committed to the Oregon State Hospital in Portland, Oregon. Please donate today to help support this groundbreaking film.
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