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"Take Me Home" confronts the structural failures of the American healthcare system and the inequities disabled people face — but it does so with warmth, humor, and deep humanity. Reviewers have praised it for genuinely centering the disabled experience rather than viewing disability through a caregiver's lens.
Held on the grounds of the former Willowbrook State School, this event between AHRC NYC and CSI represents another step in reclaiming and reimagining a place once associated with exclusion and despair into a community dedicated to opportunity and the realization of each individual’s full potential.

This film has a remarkable trajectory:
2023: Centerpiece at the White House's celebration of the 25th Anniversary of the Olmstead Act — the 1999 Supreme Court decision that ruled unjustified institutional isolation of people with disabilities is a form of discrimination under the ADA. Olmstead established that people with disabilities have the right to receive services in the most integrated community-based settings possible. This is the legal and moral bedrock of AHRC's work— the shift from institutionalization to community inclusion.
2025: Won the $1 million AT&T Untold Stories Award at Tribeca Festival
January 2026: World premiere at Sundance Film Festival; won the prestigious Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award
February 2026: International premiere at the Berlinale (Berlin International Film Festival)

Liz Sargent (Writer/Director): A Korean-American adoptee and two-time NY Emmy Award winner. She was one of eleven children raised by two white parents in the Midwest. Her background in choreography informs her emotionally layered storytelling. She has said filmmaking is "where I work out the conversations I'm afraid to have in real life."

Anna Sargent (Star): A Special Olympics athlete who brings her own lived experience to the role. Audiences at Sundance Q&As noted it was sometimes difficult to tell where documentary reality ended and fiction began — a testament to the authenticity of her performance.
Caring Across Generations (The Executive Producer) Caring Across Generations (CAG) was founded in 2011 by Ai-jen Poo and Sarita Gupta. It is a national coalition of family caregivers, care workers, disabled people, and aging adults working to make care accessible, affordable, and equitable. CAG co-produced this film explicitly to "transform cultural narratives related to aging, disability and care" — their first foray into narrative film. Ai-jen Poo also leads the National Domestic Workers Alliance and is a Ford Foundation Trustee. CAG's involvement reflects a growing recognition that storytelling and policy advocacy must work together to shift cultural norms around disability and care.
As of recent years, nearly 692,000 people — most with intellectual or developmental disabilities — remain on Medicaid home and community-based services (HCBS) waiting lists. The film makes this crisis visible and human.

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