Liz Sargent Filmmaker

Liz Sargent is a Korean-American adoptee and award-winning filmmaker whose work explores adoption, disability, and family through an intimate, visually expressive lens. A writer-director with a background in choreography, she draws on movement to convey complex emotional states. Her intersectional identity and experience as the middle child of eleven siblings deeply inform her storytelling.

Her feature film Take Me Home premiered at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival in U.S. Competition. The project is notable for casting her cognitively disabled sister as the lead, an experience Sargent wrote about in The Hollywood Reporter during the film’s FYC campaign. The proof of concept won the Julia S. Gouw Fellowship with CAPE and Janet Yang Productions, screened at over 50 festivals including Sundance and SXSW, aired on PBS and Delta Airlines, and won AT&T Tribeca Untold Stories ($1M).

Sargent’s short Stranger’s Reunion  premiered internationally and won Best Director at Diversity in Cannes. She is an NBCUniversal Directing Fellow, Ryan Murphy HALF Initiative mentee, and member of the Gold House Creator Network.