Madeleine Sackler is an American filmmaker and Sackler family heiress.
15 Facts About Madeleine Sackler
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Madeleine Sackler received an Emmy Award in 2015 and was nominated for a second in 2020.
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Madeleine Sackler has received criticism for her family fortune, which derives mostly from the sale and manufacture of the highly addictive pharmaceutical opioid Oxycontin, the central drug in the opioid crisis.
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The Sackler family, including Madeleine Sackler, is profiled in various media, including the documentary Crime of the Century on HBO and in the book Empire of Pain by Patrick Radden Keefe.
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Madeleine Sackler went to public high school and attended Duke University.
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Madeleine Sackler was a biopsychology major at Duke and considered going to med school.
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Madeleine Sackler incorporated these interests into her time at Duke with a minor in English, a photography elective, and creating a documentary short as an independent study.
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Madeleine Sackler directed her first documentary titled The Lottery in 2010.
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Madeleine Sackler has since filmed more documentaries, including Dangerous Acts Starring the Unstable Elements of Belarus and It's a Hard Truth Ain't It.
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Madeleine Sackler has produced some of her own films, and is the founder of a production company Great Curve Films.
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Madeleine Sackler argues that this charter school "lottery" is a result of corruption in the public education system.
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Madeleine Sackler began production on the film in Belarus in the summer of 2010.
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Madeleine Sackler gathered footage of Belarus Free Theatre, an underground theatre group that had been censored and deemed illegal by the Belarus government.
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Madeleine Sackler made two films that were filmed entirely in prison.
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Madeleine Sackler became interested in the prison system while filming her first documentary The Lottery, about the public education system.