The 2025 Tribeca Competition AT&T Untold Tales grant recipient has formally been unveiled. IndieWire can proudly announce that filmmaker Liz Sargent gained $1 million to fund her function “Take Me Residence.” The movie will premiere on the 2026 Tribeca Competition after Sargent receives year-round mentorship and promotional assist, plus the funding.
Sargent is the eighth winner of the biggest movie manufacturing prize on the earth. Her 2023 quick movie additionally titled “Take Me Residence” beforehand debuted at Sundance and went on to display screen at SXSW, Desertscape, and lately Slamdance Unstoppable. Her quick centered on two estranged sisters, one in all whom is cognitively disabled, who should be taught to speak after their mom’s demise.
The logline for the function adaptation reads: “Anna, a 38-year-old Korean adoptee with a cognitive incapacity, cares for her getting older dad and mom 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 thrive.”
“Take Me Residence” was chosen by the 2025 Untold Tales 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 Tales winner David Fortune (“Coloration Ebook”). The stay pitch occasion panel was moderated by journalist and host Brooke Baldwin.
Different Untold Tales 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 determination was extremely tough, we have now love for all of those movies. They’re wealthy, textured, stunning worlds that we have now 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 ought to be advised, we have now large confidence that Liz Sargent’s ‘Take Me Residence’ will make an extremely, stunning movie. Congratulations Liz, our eighth winner of AT&T’s Untold Tales.”
Whereas introducing this 12 months’s program, Tribeca co-founder and CEO Jane Rosenthal advised the viewers that the Untold Tales program is “one of the significant occasions” of the pageant. “This isn’t only a competitors. It’s a launchpad — and a lifeline — for rising filmmakers,” Rosenthal mentioned. “Untold Tales is the biggest manufacturing prize of its form on the earth. There’s nowhere else you possibly can stroll away with a one-million-dollar grant and the promise of a pageant premiere, with inventive assist each step of the best way.”
Rosenthal applauded the 5 finalists for 2025 for representing “daring concepts, contemporary views, and the form of storytelling that stays with you.” The enduring producer added, “I can’t wait to see what these unimaginable artists have created and to welcome one other function into the Tribeca household.”
Sargent mentioned of her win, “I’m so honored to convey 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 understand it’s a common story that may resonate with audiences all over the place. We’re so excited to be working with AT&T and Tribeca on this very particular and private story.”
The 2024 Untold Tales winner “Honeyjoon” is now premiering at Tribeca 2025. Lilian T. Mehrel advised IndieWire that the Tribeca AT&T Untold Tales group supported her directorial debut with the “most form, caring, good mentors” Bryce Norbitz and Michelle Hamada, who provided suggestions ranging from the pitch for the movie and even organized check screenings. “I felt full inventive freedom and belief in my directorial imaginative and prescient,” Mehrel mentioned, including that she remains to be involved along with her fellow Tribeca AT&T Untold Tales 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 stunning movies, they’ve shared a lot of their experiences with me, and I can’t wait to move it ahead to the subsequent.”