Tribeca Festival Announces ‘Take Me Home’ as the AT&T Untold Stories 2025 Winner | rssama.com

The 2025 Tribeca Festival AT&T Untold Stories assistance recipient has officially been unveiled. IndieWire tin proudly denote that filmmaker Liz Sargent won $1 cardinal to money her characteristic “Take Me Home.” The movie will premiere at nan 2026 Tribeca Festival aft Sargent receives year-round mentorship and promotional support, positive nan funding.

Sargent is nan eighth victor of nan largest movie accumulation prize successful nan world. Her 2023 short movie besides titled “Take Me Home” antecedently debuted astatine Sundance and went connected to surface astatine SXSW, Desertscape, and precocious Slamdance Unstoppable. Her short centered connected 2 estranged sisters, 1 of whom is cognitively disabled, who must study to pass aft their mother’s death. 

The logline for nan characteristic adjustment reads: “Anna, a 38-year-old Korean adoptee pinch a cognitive disability, cares for her aging parents successful a vulnerable equilibrium of gathering each other’s needs. When a Florida power activity shatters their family and Anna’s routine, her early is uncertain — until she creates a world wherever she tin thrive.”

“Take Me Home” was selected by nan 2025 Untold Stories Greenlight Committee comprising of Stephanie Hsu, Andrew Ahn, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Gina Rodriguez, AT&T Chief Marketing and Growth Officer Kellyn Kenny, and 2023 AT&T Untold Stories victor David Fortune (“Color Book”). The unrecorded transportation arena sheet was moderated by journalist and host Brooke Baldwin.

Other Untold Stories 2025 competing filmmakers included Meagan Noel Fulps (“Fight Like a Mother”), Masami Kawai (“Valley of nan Tall Grass”), Jazz Pitcairn (“Ivan”), and Orlando Javier Torres (“Un Lugar De Agua”).

“This determination was incredibly difficult, we person emotion for each of these films. They are rich, textured, beautiful worlds that we person ne'er seen before, and we want to admit nan clip and effort that has gone into crafting these stories and characters,” nan 2025 Greenlight Committee said in a associated statement. “While we judge each of these untold stories should beryllium told, we person tremendous assurance that Liz Sargent’s ‘Take Me Home’ will make an incredibly, beautiful film. Congratulations Liz, our eighth victor of AT&T’s Untold Stories.” 

While introducing this year’s program, Tribeca co-founder and CEO Jane Rosenthal told nan assemblage that nan Untold Stories programme is “one of nan astir meaningful events” of nan festival. “This isn’t conscionable a competition. It’s a launchpad — and a lifeline — for emerging filmmakers,” Rosenthal said. “Untold Stories is nan largest accumulation prize of its benignant successful nan world. There’s obscurity other you tin locomotion distant pinch a one-million-dollar grant and the promise of a show premiere, pinch imaginative support each measurement of nan way.”

Rosenthal applauded nan 5 finalists for 2025 for representing “bold ideas, caller perspectives, and nan benignant of storytelling that stays pinch you.” The iconic shaper added, “I can’t hold to spot what these unthinkable artists person created and to invited different characteristic into nan Tribeca family.”

Sargent said of her win, “I’m truthful honored to bring this communicative to life. I can’t hold to stock my sister Anna’s awesomeness pinch nan world. While this communicative belongs to her, we besides cognize it’s a cosmopolitan communicative that will resonate pinch audiences everywhere. We are truthful excited to beryllium moving pinch AT&T and Tribeca connected this very typical and individual story.” 

The 2024 Untold Stories victor “Honeyjoon” is now premiering astatine Tribeca 2025. Lilian T. Mehrel told IndieWire that nan Tribeca AT&T Untold Stories squad supported her directorial debut pinch nan “most kind, caring, superb mentors” Bryce Norbitz and Michelle Hamada, who offered feedback starting from nan transportation for nan movie and moreover organized trial screenings. “I felt complete imaginative state and spot successful my directorial vision,” Mehrel said, adding that she is still successful interaction pinch her chap Tribeca AT&T Untold Stories grant winners. “Each head has their ain chopped sound they were chosen for, but we’re each connected by this life-changing award. Especially nan much caller alumni; I’ve seen their beautiful films, they’ve shared truthful overmuch of their experiences pinch me, and I can’t hold to walk it guardant to nan next.”