
Acting
Liz Sargent
Acting credits
Liz and Anna Sargent have a lot of questions about what the future holds for their family: the world beyond their home is not made for someone like Anna, who lives with a cognitive disability. Their answer? To make a movie. This short documentary follows the sisters behind-the-scenes of their creative collaboration on the award-winning feature film Take Me Home, revealing how seeking answers in creative ways can lead to surprising outcomes.
Between Here and Home
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NRNanoplastics have entered the water supply. Plastic is in the bloodstream. You will be dead by the age of 35. Unless you can filter water. Young people are condemned to cleanse the polluted Earth. They are known as the Harvester Generation.
The Harvester Generation
2020
4.0Johnny is an Iraq war veteran who wrestles with post traumatic stress (PTSD) and the transition to civilian life. He is tormented by an incessant hyper vigilance and insomnia, and the lingering questions of his past actions in combat.
Tango on the Balcony
2016
Behind the camera
NRAnna (Anna Sargent making her acting debut), a middle-aged Korean adoptee with a cognitive disability, cares for her aging parents in a fragile balance of meeting one another’s needs. Alongside her sister Emily (Ali Ahn) and her father (Victor Slezak), they must confront challenging questions about the future, but Anna remains determined to build a life where all of them can thrive.
Take Me Home
2026
NRAnna (Anna Sargent making her acting debut), a middle-aged Korean adoptee with a cognitive disability, cares for her aging parents in a fragile balance of meeting one another’s needs. Alongside her sister Emily (Ali Ahn) and her father (Victor Slezak), they must confront challenging questions about the future, but Anna remains determined to build a life where all of them can thrive.
Take Me Home
2026
NRAnna (Anna Sargent making her acting debut), a middle-aged Korean adoptee with a cognitive disability, cares for her aging parents in a fragile balance of meeting one another’s needs. Alongside her sister Emily (Ali Ahn) and her father (Victor Slezak), they must confront challenging questions about the future, but Anna remains determined to build a life where all of them can thrive.
Take Me Home
2026
NRA Korean-American adoptee travels to Hong Kong to meet her biological mother for the first time without a translator in the room. They are separated by a gulf of time, language, and culture.
Strangers' Reunion
2019
NRA Korean-American adoptee travels to Hong Kong to meet her biological mother for the first time without a translator in the room. They are separated by a gulf of time, language, and culture.
Strangers' Reunion
2019
5.5After their mother’s death, a cognitively disabled woman and her estranged sister must learn to communicate in order to move forward
Take Me Home
2023
5.5After their mother’s death, a cognitively disabled woman and her estranged sister must learn to communicate in order to move forward
Take Me Home
2023
5.5After their mother’s death, a cognitively disabled woman and her estranged sister must learn to communicate in order to move forward
Take Me Home
2023
NRNanoplastics have entered the water supply. Plastic is in the bloodstream. You will be dead by the age of 35. Unless you can filter water. Young people are condemned to cleanse the polluted Earth. They are known as the Harvester Generation.
The Harvester Generation
2020
