The director embraced her sister Anna’s cognitive challenges, wrote from her point of view and cast her as the lead in her narrative short film. By Liz Sargent When I set out to make my short film ...

Expanding upon her award-winning short film, writer-director Liz Sargent again casts her sister Anna Sargent in the story of a cognitively disabled woman facing tough realities about her aging parents ...

Sundance: Liz Sargent's debut film is an admirably lived-in drama about a family in distress that retreats into fantasy rather than seeing through its complications. In one of the first scenes of ...

EXCLUSIVE: Liz Sargent’s drama Take Me Home, which won the U.S. Dramatic Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award, at Sundance is screening is also an acquisitions title at the Berlinale. The pic is being sold ...

In Liz Sargent’s debut feature, two adopted daughters grapple with the realities of aging parents and disability. When we enter their cramped Florida home, this wee mutual aid society of three is in a ...

“Take Me Home” is a sensitive drama that marks a notably personal feature debut for director Liz Sargent. As a lengthier adaptation of her lovely 2023 short film, however, it’s missing an expanded ...