Sandra Luckow (Producer -Writer - 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, as well as 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 classes in 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.

Vanishing: A Love Story is her most recent feature documentary and it has won multiple awards in the US and internationally. Started in June of 2022, it premiered on the festival circuit in 2025. It is a continuation of Luckow’s intimate documentary portraiture where she allows her subjects as much agency as possible. It is a hallmark that has dominated her work.