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\n\tEXCLUSIVE: <\/strong>Ahead of the Sundance<\/a> premiere of her debut feature, Take Me Home<\/a><\/em>, award-winning filmmaker Liz Sargent<\/a> has inked with Mgmt Entertainment<\/a> for representation across film and television.<\/p>\n \n\tCurrently seeking distribution, Take Me Home <\/em>is an expansion of Sargent\u2019s same-name proof-of-concept short, which premiered at Sundance in 2023. The drama follows Anna (Anna Sargent), whose ordered routine and efforts to care for her aging parents are disrupted amid a relentless Florida heat wave.<\/p>\n \n\tTake Me Home<\/em> is set to world premiere in Sundance\u2019s U.S. Dramatic Competition on January 26 before going on to make its international premiere in Perspectives Competition at the Berlinale on February 17. Gersh is representing\u00a0sales for the film.<\/p>\n \n\tAfter taking the short film version of Take Me Home<\/em> to Sundance, Sargent saw it win the Grand Jury Prize at the American Cinematheque\u2019s Proof Film Festival in 2024. The film was later showcased at the White House in celebration of the 25th anniversary of the Olmstead Act, with her pitch for a narrative feature expansion winning the largest production award in the world of $1 million dollars at AT&T Untold Stories at the Tribeca Festival. The project was also supported by the John D. and Catherine T. Macarthur Foundation, Sundance Institute Artist Accelerator Program, The Walt Disney Studios Project Advancement and Completion Fund, Rainin Foundation, and SFFILM Invest Program.<\/p>\n \n\tSargent unveiled a previous narrative short, Strangers\u2019 Reunion<\/em>, in 2019. Chronicling a Korean-American adoptee\u2019s journey to Hong Kong to meet her birth mother for the first time, the film was produced by Ritz-Carlton and Hearst under the mentorship of Mike Figgis, and released in six languages worldwide.<\/p>\n \n\tA two-time New York Emmy winner, Sargent has been recognized as both a Half Initiative Mentee (2022 & 2023) and a MSSNG PCES AICP Mentee (2023) and is currently part of NBCUniversal\u2019s Launch Director program.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source deadline.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" EXCLUSIVE: Ahead of the Sundance premiere of her debut feature, Take Me Home, award-winning filmmaker Liz Sargent has inked with Mgmt Entertainment for representation across film and television. Currently seeking distribution, Take Me Home is an expansion of Sargent\u2019s same-name proof-of-concept short, which premiered at Sundance in 2023. The drama follows Anna (Anna Sargent), whose […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2247645,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[435166,435167,377829,304789,435168],"class_list":["post-2247644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-liz-sargent","tag-mgmt-entertainment","tag-sundance","tag-sundance-film-festival","tag-take-me-home"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Take-Me-Home-Filmmaker-Liz-Sargent-Signs-With-Mgmt-Entertainment.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2247644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2247644"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2247644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2247646,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2247644\/revisions\/2247646"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2247645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2247644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2247644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2247644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}