Willa has acquired U.S. distribution rights to “Take Me Home,” the debut characteristic from writer-director Liz Sargent.
“Take Me Home” premiered within the U.S. Dramatic Competitors on the Sundance Movie Pageant and made its worldwide premiere on the Berlinale within the Views competitors part this yr.
In “Take Me Home,” 38-year-old Korean adoptee Anna cares for her growing old mother and father in a fragile steadiness of assembly every others’ wants. When a Florida warmth wave shatters their household and Anna’s routine, her future is unsure till she creates a world through which she will be able to thrive. Sargent’s debut drama examines the shifting calls for positioned on a singular — and uniquely challenged — household in a Florida suburb.
The solid contains newcomer Anna Sargent (the director’s sister) as Anna, Ali Ahn and adopted sibling Emily and Victor Slezak as their father, who’s protecting up indicators of dementia.
Expanded from Sargent’s acclaimed quick (2023 Sundance Movie Pageant, supported by Julia S. Gouw Brief Movie Problem with CAPE/Janet Yang Prods.), Sargent’s movie exposes the indignities of the American well being care system and the structural challenges confronted by disabled folks.
Willa plans a theatrical rollout deliberate for this fall, accompanied by an affect marketing campaign in partnership with Caring Throughout Generations, a number one nationwide group working to remodel the methods and tradition supporting care and caregiving within the U.S, that additionally homes the media firm Give Not Take Media.
In 2025, “Take Me Home” gained a $1M manufacturing prize from Tribeca’s AT&T Untold Tales program, the most important manufacturing award on the earth. The movie could have its New York premiere at Tribeca Pageant in June.
Produced by Apoorva Guru Charan (“Joyland” and considered one of Selection’s 2026 10 Producers to Watch), Minos Papas (“Motherwitch,” “Take Me Home” quick) and Sargent, it’s government producers embody Ai-jen Poo and Lydia Storie for Give Not Take Media, Jane Shin Park, Andrew Kim, Bryce Norbitz & Michelle Hamada for Tribeca Studios, Philipp Engelhorn and Candice Sanchez McFarlane for Cinereach, Invoice Pohlad and Kelly Martin for River Street Leisure, Anita Bhatia Basis for Tomorrow, Elizabeth Woodward for Willa and Janet Yang.
“ ‘Take Me Home’ is exactly the kind of film Willa seeks out to support,” stated Woodward, founder and CEO of Willa. “Liz has created a film that is profoundly intimate and urgent, grounded in lived experience yet universally resonant. It’s a film that not only moves audiences, but demands engagement with the systems that shape our lives.”
Sargent stated, “I feel so fortunate to work with a rare and intentional distribution team that understands the great potential for this very personal film to connect with wide audiences. From the beginning, we believed this story would be a powerful underdog of a film that could open hearts and shift perspectives. Willa is exactly the team to help bring that vision to life.”
Give Not Take Media, who government produced “Take Me Home,” will keep on as Willa’s companion in main an affect marketing campaign that extends the movie’s themes past the display screen, which incorporates neighborhood screenings and public conversations to attach the theatrical launch to a nationwide listening tour designed to assist inform transformative options for the 130 million caregivers and their households who’re struggling to afford and handle care.
Willa will lead a multi-phase launch technique spanning theatrical, awards and digital streaming platforms, accompanied by focused neighborhood screenings, partnerships, and policy-focused activations. Willa’s most up-to-date launch, The Voice of Hind Rajab,” hit almost $1 million on the North American field workplace. It was nominated for an Oscar, a Golden Globe and a BAFTA after profitable the Silver Lion Grand Jury Prize on the Venice Movie Pageant in 2025.
