Anna, a 38-year-old Korean adoptee with a cognitive disability, cares for her aging parents in a fragile balance of meeting each others’ needs. When a Florida heat wave shatters their family and Anna’s routine, her future is uncertain - until she creates a world where she can thrive.
Anna, a 38-year-old Korean woman with a cognitive disability, cares for her ageing adoptive parents in a fragile balance of meeting each other’s needs. When a Florida heatwave shatters both the family’s and Anna’s routines, her future looks uncertain – until she manages to create a world in which she can thrive.
Liz Sargent’s intimate debut drama examines the shifting demands placed on a uniquely vulnerable family in a Florida suburb. The film exposes the indignities of the American healthcare system and the structural challenges faced by disabled people and their families. It also gently and imaginatively traces Anna’s path to finding independence and a connection to a community of chosen family. By turns quietly devastating and bracingly optimistic, Take Me Home confronts us with an impossible situation, while holding out hope for Anna’s future.
Liz Sargent is a Korean-American adoptee and award-winning filmmaker whose work delves into adoption, disability, and family dynamics. With a background in choreography, she brings emotional depth to her storytelling, shaped by her experience as the middle child of eleven in an intersectional family.
A two-time NY EMMY winner (2020 & 2021), Liz is also a HALF Initiative Mentee (2022 & 2023), an MSSNG PCES AICP Mentee (2023), and NBCU's Launch Director (2024-2026). Her debut narrative short, Strangers' Reunion (2019), produced by Ritz-Carlton and Hearst under the mentorship of Mike Figgis, was an adoptee reunion film released in six languages worldwide.
Her proof of concept, Take Me Home, premiered at Sundance (2023), won the Grand Jury Prize at American Cinematheque's PROOF FF (2024), and was the centerpiece at the White House to celebrate the 25th Anniversary of the Olmstead Act, where Liz and her sister, the film’s star, shared their stories with key officials. Take Me Home screened at over 50 festivals with distribution on PBS, Kanopy, Swiss & French TV stations and a limited run on Delta Airlines.
The feature script won an SFFILM Rainin grant (2023) and was a finalist for the Humanitas New Voices Fellowship (2024) and an honorable mention for the Lynn Shelton Grant (2024).
AT&T Untold Stories & Tribeca Film Festival
Sundance Film Festival 2026 - Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award
Executive Producers: Janet Yang Productions, Cinereach, River Road, Caring Across Generations, Ai-Jen Poo
Producers: Apoorva Charan, Minos Papas
Actor 'Emily' - Ali Ahn
Actor 'Anna' - Anna Sargent
