Liz Sargent is a Korean-American adoptee and filmmaker whose work explores adoption, disability, and family dynamics.

A two-time NY EMMY winner (2020 & 2021), she is also a HALF Initiative Mentee (2022 & 2023), an MSSNG PCES AICP Mentee (2023), and an NBCU Launch Director (2024–2026).

Sargent’s proof-of-concept short Take Me Home premiered at the Sundance Film Festival (2023), won the 2024 Grand Jury Prize at the American Cinematheque PROOF Film Festival (2024), and was featured at the White House for the 25th Anniversary of the Olmstead Act.

Sargent later expanded the project into her debut feature, which won AT&T Untold Stories, the largest production prize in the world at the Tribeca Festival.

Take Me Home premiered in U.S. Dramatic Competition at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival, where it received the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award, and later had its international premiere at Berlinale in Perspectives competition.