“That Way Madness Lies…” sees award-winning filmmaker Sandra Luckow turning the camera on her own family. The doc about her brother’s struggles with mental health has been acquired by First Run Features, a press release announced. The film opens December 14 in New York and Los Angeles.
Luckow’s brother, Duane, was duped by a Nigerian email scam and later found himself “involuntarily committed into the hospital made famous by ‘One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,'” according to the film’s synopsis. Luckow and the rest of her family were forced to “navigate the broken mental health system in an effort to save her brother.” “That Way Madness Lies…” includes footage from Duane’s iPhone video diary, offering “an unfiltered look at the mind of a man with untreated schizophrenia as well as an indictment of how the system failed.”
Earlier this year Neon secured the rights to “Sharp Edges,” Luckow’s 1986 documentary following Tonya Harding during her first U.S. Figure Skating Championship run at the age of 15. The project was her senior thesis at Yale. “Sharp Edges” had a one-week theatrical release and is now available on VOD. Luckow’s other credits include “Belly Talkers” and “Hellbent for Heaven.”
Check out a trailer for “That Way Madness Lies…” below.
