Liz Sargent’s Take Me Home, a deeply personal short film that debuted at the Sundance Film Festival, will be rebuilt as a full-length feature.

The adaptation is being done in partnership with Caring Across Generations, a national advocacy organization that focuses on aging, disability and care, which will help finance the project while raising additional financing in part through philanthropic support. Shooting is eyed to start this fall with a projected release date sometime next year. Caring Across Generations is also committed to lead an impact campaign in conjunction with the launch.

Sargent wrote, directed and produced the short film based on her own unique family situation. She penned a guest column for The Hollywood Reporter last November that best describes the details of the project and why it hit so close to home — and why it was filmed in her parent’s actual home. Sargent grew up as...