The 2025 Tribeca Festival AT&T Untold Stories grant recipient has formally been unveiled. IndieWire can proudly announce that filmmaker Liz Sargent gained $1 million to fund her characteristic “Take Me Residence.” The movie will premiere at the 2026 Tribeca Festival after Sargent receives year-round mentorship and promotional assist, plus the funding.
Sargent is the eighth winner of the largest movie manufacturing prize in the world. Her 2023 quick movie additionally titled “Take Me Residence” beforehand debuted at Sundance and went on to display at SXSW, Desertscape, and lately Slamdance Unstoppable. Her quick centered on two estranged sisters, one in every of whom is cognitively disabled, who should study to speak after their mom’s dying.
The logline for the characteristic adaptation reads: “Anna, a 38-year-old Korean adoptee with a cognitive incapacity, cares for her growing old mother and father in a fragile stability of assembly one another’s wants. When a Florida warmth wave shatters their household and Anna’s routine, her future is unsure — till she creates a world the place she will be able to thrive.”
“Take Me Residence” was chosen by the 2025 Untold Stories Greenlight Committee comprising of Stephanie Hsu, Andrew Ahn, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Gina Rodriguez, AT&T Chief Advertising and marketing and Development Officer Kellyn Kenny, and 2023 AT&T Untold Stories winner David Fortune (“Shade E-book”). The reside pitch occasion panel was moderated by journalist and host Brooke Baldwin.
Different Untold Stories 2025 competing filmmakers included Meagan Noel Fulps (“Struggle Like a Mom”), Masami Kawai (“Valley of the Tall Grass”), Jazz Pitcairn (“Ivan”), and Orlando Javier Torres (“Un Lugar De Agua”).
“This choice was extremely tough, we now have love for all of those movies. They’re wealthy, textured, lovely worlds that we now have by no means seen earlier than, and we need to acknowledge the effort and time that has gone into crafting these tales and characters,” the 2025 Greenlight Committee mentioned in a joint assertion. “Whereas we consider all of those untold tales must be informed, we now have super confidence that Liz Sargent’s ‘Take Me Residence’ will make an extremely, lovely movie. Congratulations Liz, our eighth winner of AT&T’s Untold Stories.”
Whereas introducing this yr’s program, Tribeca co-founder and CEO Jane Rosenthal informed the viewers that the Untold Stories program is “one in every of the most significant occasions” of the pageant. “This isn’t only a competitors. It’s a launchpad — and a lifeline — for rising filmmakers,” Rosenthal mentioned. “Untold Stories is the largest manufacturing prize of its variety in the world. There’s nowhere else you may stroll away with a one-million-dollar grant and the promise of a pageant premiere, with artistic assist each step of the approach.”
Rosenthal applauded the 5 finalists for 2025 for representing “daring concepts, recent views, and the type of storytelling that stays with you.” The long-lasting producer added, “I can’t wait to see what these unimaginable artists have created and to welcome one other characteristic into the Tribeca household.”
Sargent mentioned of her win, “I’m so honored to carry this story to life. I can’t wait to share my sister Anna’s awesomeness with the world. Whereas this story belongs to her, we additionally realize it’s a common story that may resonate with audiences in all places. We’re so excited to be working with AT&T and Tribeca on this very particular and private story.”
The 2024 Untold Stories winner “Honeyjoon” is now premiering at Tribeca 2025. Lilian T. Mehrel informed IndieWire that the Tribeca AT&T Untold Stories group supported her directorial debut with the “most variety, caring, sensible mentors” Bryce Norbitz and Michelle Hamada, who provided suggestions ranging from the pitch for the movie and even organized check screenings. “I felt full artistic freedom and belief in my directorial imaginative and prescient,” Mehrel mentioned, including that she continues to be involved along with her fellow Tribeca AT&T Untold Stories award winners. “Every director has their very own distinct voice they had been chosen for, however we’re all related by this life-changing award. Particularly the more moderen alumni; I’ve seen their lovely movies, they’ve shared a lot of their experiences with me, and I can’t wait to move it ahead to the subsequent.”
