The 2025 Tribeca Festival AT&T Untold Stories grant recipient has officially been unveiled. IndieWire can proudly announce that filmmaker Liz Sargent won $1 million to fund her feature “Take Me Home.” The film will premiere at the 2026 Tribeca Festival after Sargent receives year-round mentorship and promotional support, plus the funding.
Sargent is the eighth winner of the largest film production prize in the world. Her 2023 short film also titled “Take Me Home” previously debuted at Sundance and went on to screen at SXSW, Desertscape, and recently Slamdance Unstoppable. Her short centered on two estranged sisters, one of whom is cognitively disabled, who must learn to communicate after their mother’s death.
The logline for the feature adaptation reads: “Anna, a 38-year-old Korean adoptee with a cognitive disability, cares for her aging parents in a fragile balance of meeting each other’s needs. When a Florida heat wave shatters their family and Anna’s routine,...
Sargent is the eighth winner of the largest film production prize in the world. Her 2023 short film also titled “Take Me Home” previously debuted at Sundance and went on to screen at SXSW, Desertscape, and recently Slamdance Unstoppable. Her short centered on two estranged sisters, one of whom is cognitively disabled, who must learn to communicate after their mother’s death.
The logline for the feature adaptation reads: “Anna, a 38-year-old Korean adoptee with a cognitive disability, cares for her aging parents in a fragile balance of meeting each other’s needs. When a Florida heat wave shatters their family and Anna’s routine,...
- 6/5/2025
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
In partnership with Shonda Rhimes’ Shondaland, SeriesFest has awarded its 2022 Women Directing Mentorship to Gia-Rayne B. Harris.
The program first launched in 2018 and pairs rising female directors with established episodic directors on Shondaland-produced series. Previous winners include Jennifer Morris (2021), who recently finished shadowing on ABC’s “Station 19,” and Tamika Miller (2020), who has since directed two “Station 19” episodes.
Harris, a writer-director from Mississippi, is a graduate of the AFI directing program and has directed 12 short films, premiering several at Outfest, the American Black Film Festival (ABFF), NewFest, AFI Fest and the Pan African Film Festival. She was named a finalist for the HBO Short Film Award at ABFF, and her short film “Pens and Pencils” will debut on HBO in spring 2023. Additionally, she has been set to make her TV directing debut on “Chicago Pd” in 2023 after joining the NBCULaunch Female Forward Program.
Harris is repped by Heroes and Villains Entertainment.
The program first launched in 2018 and pairs rising female directors with established episodic directors on Shondaland-produced series. Previous winners include Jennifer Morris (2021), who recently finished shadowing on ABC’s “Station 19,” and Tamika Miller (2020), who has since directed two “Station 19” episodes.
Harris, a writer-director from Mississippi, is a graduate of the AFI directing program and has directed 12 short films, premiering several at Outfest, the American Black Film Festival (ABFF), NewFest, AFI Fest and the Pan African Film Festival. She was named a finalist for the HBO Short Film Award at ABFF, and her short film “Pens and Pencils” will debut on HBO in spring 2023. Additionally, she has been set to make her TV directing debut on “Chicago Pd” in 2023 after joining the NBCULaunch Female Forward Program.
Harris is repped by Heroes and Villains Entertainment.
- 12/8/2022
- by Selome Hailu
- Variety Film + TV
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