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Writer & Director: Liz Sargent

Sue Jean Kim & Michelle Okkyung Lee

Mentor: Mike Figgis

The film was released internationally in 6 languages and won Best Director at Diversity in Cannes, Best Screenplay at Brand Film Festival London.

Producer: Louis Figgis, Creative Director: Adam Day-Lewin, Creative Copywriter: Catherine Jarvie, Co-Producer: Rebecca Mills, Director of Photography: Sam Goldie, Editor: BettyJo Moore

RSA Hong Kong, Final Cut New York, Jungle Sound London, Glassworks London.

TAKE ME HOME

Narrative Short

The film will premiere at the

Academy Qualifying Reel Sisters Film Festival this October 2022.

After their mother’s death, an intellectually disabled woman and her estranged sister must learn to communicate in order to care for each other.

TAKE ME HOME is the WINNER of two grants and fellowships: The Julia S. Gouw grant for $15,000 with a fellowship by CAPE (Coalition of Asian Pacifics in Entertainment) and Janet Yang Productions and a REEL SISTERS Fellowship including a $5000 grant.

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Imperfections

This little film experiment was for the final round of the Julia S Gouw Grant and fellowship with CAPE & Janet Yang.

We were offered a few lines of dialogue from Alice Wu then had to make a film around it. Filmed in Nicosia, Cyprus.

Performed by Marina Makris and Liz Sargent

Producer/DP Minos Papas

Sound Mike Charalambrous

SLOW DOWN: River To River

Filmmaker Liz Sargent was commissioned by PBS/ALL ARTS to create an experimental short film reflecting themes of the River To River Festival: deceleration, reflection, and stillness as an antidote to our rushed contemporary reality.

NY EMMY WINNER: Best Arts Special

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Flowstate: North Brooklyn Artists SERIES

In each episode of Flowstate /North Brooklyn Artists, hosts Kayafas and Jean-Pierre visit an artist in their home or studio and engage in heartfelt, casual conversations about their lives and artistic practice.

Director, Editor, Co-Producer for Episode 7: Sophia Wallace & B.D. White

Created by Minos Papas. Broadcast PBS/ALL ARTS and online.

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DANCERS (Slightly Out of Shape)

The film nods to the verité filmmaking of the late 60s, with jumps-cuts and black and white cinematography. This tactile style creates an immediacy and informality as we feel the filmmaker’s presence and communication with Tanowitz.

Broadcast PBS/ALL ARTS and online.

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Every Moment Alters

a film by Liz Sargent & Pam Tanowitz

Producted by Cyprian Films, New York and Fisher Center at BARD

World Premiere: Venice Biennale Danza

Shot in New York in 2020, Every Moment Alters captures the intense dislocation and unique disquiet of that long, strange summer. Director Liz Sargent and choreographer Pam Tanowitz evoke a shadow of memory, of how the past is the present and continues to shape the future. The screen splits and fragments, phrases catch and repeat in the music by Caroline Shaw. “The ability to forget is actually part of what makes us human...”