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Liz Sargent’s deeply personal film stars her sister Anna, who plays a woman quite like her real self: thirtysomething, cognitively disabled, and utterly vivacious. As the story begins, Anna is living with her aging parents in Florida, but things take a turn when her mother (Marceline Hugot) passes away. Older sister Emily (Ali Ahn) flies in from New York City to help, but discovers a family in crisis: father Bob (Victor Slezak) is approaching senility, and Anna is unable to care for herself.
Alternately wrenching and uplifting, Take Me Home is a film in which the play of sunbeams and splashes of rainfall share the spotlight with human drama, and Sargent is a filmmaker attuned to the small moments that mark human life. She is also a skilled director of actors: Slezak and Ahn give carefully balanced and utterly convincing performances, while Anna Sargent radiates desire and volatility in the lead role. Together, the two sisters create a work that’s free from idealism but full of empathy and subtle beauty.
Content Considerations: Fast-moving images, flashing lights, intense visual patterns
Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award: U.S. Dramatic Competition, Sundance 2026
Anna Sargent, Victor Slezak, Ali Ahn, Marceline Hugot, Shane Harper
USA
2026
English
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Credits & Director
Executive Producer
Ai-jen Poo, Lydia Storie, Jane Shin Park, Andrew Kim, Bryce Norbitz, Michele Hamada, Phillipp Engelhorn, Candice Sanchez-McClaren, Bill Pohlad, Kelly Martin, Janet Yang, Elizabeth Woodward
Producer
Apoorva Guru Charan, Minos Papas, Liz Sargent
Screenwriter
Liz Sargent
Cinematography
Farhad Ahmed Dehlvi
Editor
Ian Holden
Production Design
Joan Sargent, Bob Sargent
Original Music
Nathan Halpern, Chris Ruggiero
Liz Sargent
Liz Sargent is a Korean-American adoptee and filmmaker whose works explore adoption, disability, and family dynamics. A two-time Emmy winner (2020 and 2021), she is also a HALF Initiative mentee (2022 and 2023), an MSSNG PCES AICP mentee (2023), and an NBCU Launch Director (2024 to 2026). Her short, Take Me Home, premiered in the 2023 Sundance Film Festival, won the 2024 Grand Jury Prize at the American Cinematheque PROOF Film Festival, and was featured at the White House for the 25th anniversary of the Olmstead Act. In 2026, she expanded the short into a feature of the same name.
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