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Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award: US Dramatic
Anna, a 38-year-old Korean adoptee with a cognitive disability, cares for her aging parents in a fragile balance of meeting one another’s 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.
+ MoreWaldo Salt Screenwriting Award: US Dramatic
Anna, a 38-year-old Korean adoptee with a cognitive disability, cares for her aging parents in a fragile balance of meeting one another’s 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.
Liz Sargent’s intimate debut drama examines the shifting demands placed on a unique — and uniquely vulnerable — family in a Florida suburb. Working with a terrific ensemble, the writer-director details the struggles of Anna (newcomer Anna Sargent, the director’s sister), fellow adopted sibling Emily (Ali Ahn), and devoted father Bob (Victor Slezak), who is succumbing to dementia.
Expanded from Sargent’s acclaimed short (2023 Sundance Film Festival), Take Me Home exposes the indignities of the American health care system and the structural challenges faced by disabled people. The film also gently and imaginatively traces a path for Anna’s independence and 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. — MC
This film contains strobe effects.
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Liz Sargent
Liz Sargent
Apoorva Guru Charan
Minos Papas
Liz Sargent
Farhad Ahmed Dehlvi
Ian Holden
Min Ji Kim
Nathan Halpern
Chris Ruggiero
Lera Juno
Mike Garofalo
Tera Leigh Kenney
Terra Mackintosh
Ai-jen Poo
Lydia Storie
Jane Shin Park
Andrew Kim
Bryce Norbitz
Michelle Hamada
Philipp Engelhorn
Candice Sanchez McFarlane
Bill Pohlad
Kelly Martin
Janet Yang
Anna Sargent
Victor Slezak
Ali Ahn
Marceline Hugot
Shane Harper
Cyprian Films, New York
Minos Papas
minos@cyprianfilmsny.com
9174977026
Liz Sargent is a Korean American adoptee. The proof-of-concept short Take Me Home premiered at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival, won American Cinematheque’s 2024 PROOF Film Festival Grand Jury Prize, and screened at the White House for the Olmstead decision’s 25th anniversary (2024). Its feature pitch won the 2025 Tribeca Festival’s AT&T Untold Stories Award.
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