TAKE ME HOME stars the director/writer’s sister who was born at 2 pounds with a cyst on her brain leaving her with little short term memory and various degrees of cognitive and physical disabilities. This is her first time acting.
SHORT FILM PROGRAM 6
MONDAY // 01/23/2023 // Prospector Square Theatre, Park City // 9:00 PM - World Premiere
THURSDAY // 01/26/2023 // Broadway Centre Cinema 6, Salt Lake City // 2:50 PM
SATURDAY // 01/28/2023 // Egyptian Theatre, Park City // 11:00 AM
SUNDAY // 01/29/2023 // Broadway Centre Cinema 3, Salt Lake City // 12:45 PM
ONLINE SCREENINGS TUESDAY // 01/24/2023 // 10:00 AM EST - MONDAY // 01/30/2023 @ 1:55 AM EST
The film is produced by Minos Papas (Cyprian Films New York) and Executive Produced by Julia S Gouw, Janet Yang Productions, CAPE, Virginia & Timothy Millhiser and Cindy Y. Huang.
SYNOPSIS: 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 in
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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.
Meet Liz Sargent, the filmmaker of “Take Me Home," which is playing in the Short Film Program 6 section at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival. Presented by Acura. #meettheartist #sundancefilmfestival
DIRECTOR STATEMENT
TAKE ME HOME captures a moment of terror for people who worry about how their lives will change without a plan for their siblings who cannot live on their own. As we reenter the fast competitive world, priorities are reconsidered. I think most about the youngest sibling with a Cognitive/Developmental Disability (I/DD) and how the world isn’t made for her.
In this story Anna must find a way to communicate her self-agency while her sister overhauls her home. Both sisters are learning how to mourn and change and compromise. And the only way they can move forward is if they can understand each other, but Anna’s verbal skills are not fully developed. How can they transcend language?
So many people’s lives are altered the moment a parent dies, but even more so when they inherit their sibling’s needs. It is a sudden learning curve to figure out the bureaucracy for a disabled sibling. Best practice is to honor and empower self-direction, but how do we weigh each person's independence? Anna wants her own home but in reality there is a 15K+ wait for Assisted Living in most states and the cost is exorbitant. The film does not solve this problem, but gets the characters through the overwhelming in-between moment, with a hope that they can find a way to co-exist as independent adults.