The College of Staten Island will partner with AHRC NYC on Friday, September 18, at 2:00pm, for a special screening of the motion picture Take Me Home, followed by a panel discussion featuring members of the film’s creative team. The event, which will be held at CSI’s Center for the Arts, is part of a Tribeca Festival encore screening of the acclaimed feature.

Written and directed by Liz Sargent and starring her real-life sister, Anna Sargent, Take Me Home explores family, disability, aging, caregiving, independence, and the search for community. The 91-minute film follows Anna, a 38-year-old Korean adoptee with a cognitive disability, as a Florida heatwave disrupts her family’s already fragile caregiving arrangements. As her father experiences emerging dementia and her mother’s health declines, Anna begins to imagine a future defined not only by the care she receives, but by the independence, relationships, and community she wants for herself.

The film has received significant recognition since its debut as a short film. The proof-of-concept premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2023 and was later screened at more than 50 festivals, including a White House celebration marking the 25th anniversary of the Olmstead Act. The feature version won the $1 million AT&T Untold Stories Award at the 2025 Tribeca Festival before making its world premiere at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival, where it received the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award. It also screened internationally at the Berlinale and returned to Tribeca in June 2026.

The film’s connection to the Olmstead Act, the landmark 1999 Supreme Court decision affirming the right of people with disabilities to receive services in the most integrated community-based settings possible, provides an important connection to AHRC NYC’s longstanding work supporting people with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their families.

Through its partnership with AHRC NYC, CSI will use the screening as an opportunity to engage the campus community in a broader conversation about disability representation, the caregiving crisis, community inclusion, and the importance of ensuring that people with disabilities have opportunities to pursue independence, dignity, belonging, and meaningful lives in their communities.

Although the event is free and open to the CSI community and guests, RSVP is required. Visit the Registration Page for more details.