Sandra Luckow, filmmaker portrait provided to AFIN.

Sandra Luckow

Producer and Director at AFIN

USA (from their AFIN films)

For Sandra

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  • 2025at AFIN

Biography

Sandra Luckow (Producer - Director - Editor) is a Mexican-American filmmaker who founded Ojeda Films, Inc. in 2000 to bring a bi-cultural voice to independent film. She is known for Sharp Edges, Belly Talkers (1996 Sundance US competition) and the multiple award-winning, That Way Madness Lies… Sandra has worked at Warner Bros., and Universal in casting, network and cable news programs and daytime dramas. She taught documentary film production at Yale University, School of Art for 22 years as well as producing, screenwriting, camera, editing and acting for the camera at Columbia University, Barnard College, Wesleyan University, and Sarah Lawrence College. Her pedagogy includes democratizing accessibility to modes of filmmaking by using smart phone technologies and teaching all aspects of production. She has traveled and worked internationally giving workshops, most notably with the US State Department’s cultural exchange: Lines and Spaces. She is a member of the Director’s Guild of America and holds an MFA from NYU’s TIsch School of the Arts.

AFIN recognition

From the Judges, on VANISHING (2025)

From the Judges, on VANISHING

A feature documentary about one person's journey through illness and the freedom to make peace with how life ends, this short handles a tender subject with real sensitivity and honesty. The panel found it emotional, funny, tragic and deeply engrossing, carried by an intimate, fly-on-the-wall closeness that makes you forget a camera is present at all. They praised the raw, compelling writing and the natural, unguarded presence of everyone on screen, a warmth that keeps you locked into the story from start to finish.

Curated, anonymised highlights drawn from the judges' notes.

AFIN credential card

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AFIN recognition card for Sandra Luckow: Sandra Luckow, AFIN Award Nominee
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