“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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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 an untreated schizophrenic.”

UPDATES
IN THE NEWS:
  • 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.

SCREENINGS:
  • Wednesday, April 11 at 6:30 - Diana Event Oval at Barnard College. The Athena Center for Leadership Studies, Barnard's Film Studies Department, and the Global Mental Health Program at Columbia University present this free screening. Q&A to follow. Click here for more information.  
  • Saturday, April 28 at 11:45 am at BowTie Criterion for the Richmond International Film & Music Festival. Click here for more information.
  • Sunday, April 29, USA Film Festival.
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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