LIA CHANG: Both Sides of the Camera

Lia Chang is an actor, a multi-media content producer, activist, documentarian, corporate photographer and an award-winning filmmaker and co-founder of Bev’s Girl Films, making films that foster inclusion and diversity on both sides of the camera. Bev’s Girl Films’ debut short film, Hide and Seek was a top ten film in the Asian American Film Lab’s 2015 72 Hour Shootout Filmmaking Competition, and Lia received a Best Actress nomination. She is also the host and Executive Producer of a weekly Arts, Entertainment and Lifestyle program called BACKSTAGE PASS WITH LIA CHANG. Lia's short film, When the World Was Young garnered a 2021 DisOrient Film Audience Choice Award for Best Short Narrative. Lia has appeared in the films Wolf, New Jack City, A Kiss Before Dying, King of New York, Big Trouble in Little China, The Last Dragon, Taxman. She also stars in and serves as Executive Producer for the short independent films Hide and Seek, Balancing Act, Rom-Com Gone Wrong, Belongingness and When the World was Young. She is the Executive Producer for The Cactus, The Language Lesson, The Writer and Cream and 2 Shugahs. Lia is the recipient of a Prospect Muse Award, a OCA Chinese American Journalist Award, and a AAJA National Award for New Media. Lia is an AAJA Executive Leadership Graduate, a Western Knight Fellow at USC’s Annenberg College of Communications for Specialized Journalism on Entertainment Journalism in the Digital Age, a National Press Photographers Association Visual Edge/Visual Journalism Fellow at the Poynter Institute for New Media, a Scripps Howard New Media Fellow at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, and a National Tropical Botanical Garden Environmental Journalism Fellow. She was a syndicated columnist for KYODO News, writing about What's Hot in New York.