Filmmaker Liz Sargent says she cannot remember a time when her personal narrative of being adopted didn’t influence her work.

“Somewhere in the back of your head, immediately you start thinking about the systems of care, who’s able and allowed to care for people,” she said of her upbringing as one of seven children, most from Korea ,who were adopted by a Chicago-area couple that also had four biological children. Looking after her siblings “was just how it worked,” she added.

Sargent, whose film based on her experience, Take Me Home , will premiere on the festival circuit next year, was joined by two other prominent creatives Thursday for a panel discussion at Carefest in New York. The other participants were comedian and actor Cristela Alonzo , who created the ABC sitcom Criste

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