THE KOREA SOCIETY

The Korea Society is thrilled to sponsor the screening of the award-winning short film Take Me Home, followed by a Q+A with director Liz Sargent and the film team at Marlene Meyerson JCC.

Anna is an adult with a Cognitive Disability living with her mother in Midland Florida. When her mother is unresponsive, she calls her sister for help, but without the language to be believed, Anna is brushed aside. Emily returns home and is immediately engulfed in a futile struggle for medical information, while Anna’s world is deconstructed. In this sadness, Anna sees the bigger picture and with a straightforward strength, Anna holds her own. The uncertainty for the sisters’ future independence remains but they are now a team against all odds.

Take Me Home is a film drenched with love: unexpected, fulfilling, and necessary love that comes with growing up, maturity, and realizing your own potential.— AWARDS DAILY

WINNER: Golden Reel Best Short / Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival (Academy Qualifying)
WINNER: Special Jury Best Short / deadCenter Film Festival (Academy Qualifying)
WINNER: Best Film / Cinema Touching Disability
WINNER: Special Jury / Desertscape Int'l Film Festival
WINNER: Best New Actress / Anna Sargent / New York Shorts Awards

About the Director:



Photo credit: Erica Urech

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 an exploration of her intersectional identity.

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