‘Take Me Home’ Director Liz Sargent on a New Kind of Disability Storytelling
The director embraced her sister Anna’s cognitive challenges, wrote from her point of view and cast her as the lead in her narrative short film. When I set out to make my short film Take Me Home, I wanted to raise questions about our responsibilities to family as we grow older. The film captures a feared transitional moment for families that include a loved one who cannot live on their own: What is inherited? How do we navigate the hurdles of the American health care system when we are living on the margins of life?

I grew up as the middle child of 11. My adoptive parents had four biological children, then adopted seven more — six of whom are Korean, several with disabilities. We grew up in a John Hughes-esque suburb of America on a picturesque street. Our family stood out whether we liked it or not. Inside the house, however, adoption and disability were the norm. Everyone was the same, because everyone was different. In this fast, competitive world, I think often about my youngest sibling, Anna, who has a cognitive developmental disability, and how the world isn’t made for her. When Anna was born weighing 2 pounds, her doctors didn’t think she would make it, so they didn’t do anything for her. She developed a cyst on her frontal lobe, which left her with little short-term memory. But there is an immeasurable depth of lived experience behind her eyes.

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