something kept me away. >> that is mariel hemingway walking around the back door area of her grandfather's house. talk about your sister. talk about margaux hemingway. she is a central figure in the film, not to mention in your life. in this complicated story of addiction and depression, mental illness and suicide. >> what i love about the film is it as many have compassion a margaux hemingwaand have compas. when you're 7 years old, that is a big jump. she was practically out of the house by the time i had real memories. her coming back and her life was just on to me. she got me a role in the movie called "lipstick" which really started my career, which created a lot of attention because i got notoriety for it and she got slammed. there were just things about our relationship or a very, very difficult. because i was always making choices toward what i thought was health, i was very judgmental of how she is living her life. i did not understand why she drank so much war was partying. but that was for getting out of pain. i did not see that because i was too young. >> let's go to a clip from

which was a wonderful kind of realization. >> we speak with mariel hemingway and two-time oscar- winningfilmmaker barbara kopple about the hemingway family history of mental illness and the suicides of seven relatives, including her sister, super model margaux, and her father ernest hemingway. all of that and more coming up. this is "democracy now!," democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. thousands of people marched in washington, dc saturday in a rally for gun control. the demonstrators included a group of residents from newtown, connecticut, cited the december shooting rampage that killed 27 people. >> i have watched the news and other tragedies and, shame on me for just sitting there and being upset an not assigning it was time to change. i have always said, "oh, it is so horrible they could not get to that individual and help them." and now it has happened in my backyard. it is time. >> my sister was killed by a bullet through her heart 20 years ago, so all of the things that have been happening have really resonated with me. it really makes me happy and no fina

a bunch of funky [ bleep ] in my family, i'm scared, too. >> mariel hemingway, she's joining us fromally such a pleasure here. let's talk a little bit about your film. congratulations on the documentary there. it is -- it's very serious and you delve into some things that take a lot of courage. you talk about and acknowledge, you say there have been at least seven suicides in your family that you know about, including your grandfather, famous ernest hemingway, and your sister margo. why talk about it? why examine it? why was that important to you? >> well, you know, for me, i've been -- i've been on a search my whole life to, you know, i actually jokingly said i've been running from crazy my whole life which ended up being the title of my movie. i was always on the search for things outside of myself to understand more about me. and i think part of this journey is really being able to look at -- look at my family and just be able to say, you know, this -- i have ways that are not outside of myself but within myself that have helped me get better and healthier and happier. so i'm real

and it stars mariel hemingway, it is her documentary. nd like crazy yesterday promoting this film. and we talked about the fact that her grandfather, earnest hemingway, shottest in the head and that her sister, margo, died of a drug overdose. >> we go a little bit into my grandfather. the reason why he killed himself is because he was very depressed and couldn't write anymore. and then his father had killed himself and my grandmother's father had killed himself and high great uncle and my uncle and -- and then my sister, margo. >> so you see the girl sitting next to her, that is her daughter, langley, and she actually saw the film for the first time here at sundance. and i asked her how did it feel for you to sit there and listen to your mother share all of her deep dark secrets. here's what she had to say. >> if you just like -- if you ultimate yourself into a position where you're going to not see the sunshine every day or just like one step at a time, and, you know, it's intense. and nobody realizes that the easiness of just one step,