DIRECTORS

Liz Sargent is a Korean-American adoptee whose award-winning work explores themes of adoption, disability, and family. As a writer-director, she incorporates her background as a choreographer into visual storytelling that channels complex human emotions that are an extension of her experience as the middle child of eleven and recognizes her intersectional identity. Her film TAKE ME HOME won the Julia S. Gouw Fellowship with CAPE and Janet Yang Productions, a Reel Sisters Fellowship, Asian Women Giving Circle grant and raised 30K on Kickstarter. Festivals: Sundance Santa Barbara IFF, SXSW, with Academy Qualifying wins at LAAPFF Golden Reel Best Short & deadCenter Film Festival Special Grand Jury Best Film. It’s available as part of the Sundance Shorts Theatrical Tour, on Delta In-Flight entertainment and was available online at Short of the Week, Vimeo Staff Pick & Omeleto during its 2024 Oscar campaign. The feature script is a winner of the SFFILM Rainin grant and is currently in development. The short film STRANGERS’ REUNION about an adoptee reunion was one of five films chosen by Ritz-Carlton and Hearst to be made with mentorship by Mike Figgis and production by RSA Hong Kong. The film was released online, worldwide in 6 languages and won Best Director at Diversity in Cannes and Best Screenplay at Brand FF London. Liz incorporates her background as a choreographer trained at North Carolina School of the Arts into her commercial and experimental work.