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I am thrilled to have won the Alliance for Community Media's 2025 Hometown Media Award in the "Community Media - Parades/Festivals" category for Ep. 90 of BACKSTAGE PASS WITH LIA CHANG: Grand Marshal André De Shields at NYC Village Halloween Parade.

Lia Chang has won the 2025 Hometown Media Award from the Alliance for Community Media Foundation. The awards program was established to honor and promote community media, community radio, and local cable programs that are distributed on Public, Educational and Governmental (PEG) access cable television channels. Proceeds go to the ACM Foundation which is exclusively used for facilitating, preserving and promoting education in community media.

Lia Chang is the winner of the Community Events - Parades/Festival category for Ep. 90 of BACKSTAGE PASS WITH LIA CHANG featuring Grand Marshal André De Shields in the 51st Annual NYC Village Halloween Parade. The Arts and Entertainment and Lifestyle Program airs on Sundays at 6:30pm on FIOS 34, RCN 83, Spectrum 56/1996. Lia Chang is the host and Executive Producer of BACKSTAGE PASS WITH LIA CHANG, which airs on other Manhattan Neighborhood Network.

“Born and Raised in San Francisco, CA, Lia Chang is a Chinese-American actor, a multi-media content producer, an award-winning filmmaker, a photo activist and documentarian, who lifts up and amplifies BIPOC communities and artists and the institutions that support them.

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 she received a Best Actress nomination. BGF collaborates with and produces multi-media content for artists, actors, designers, theatrical productions, composers, musicians and corporations. Lia has worked with Tony, Emmy and Grammy winner André De Shields since first appearing opposite him in Lonnie Carter’s Gulliver at La MaMa.

Lia is also an internationally published and exhibited portrait and performing arts photographer and an award-winning multi-platform journalist. Lia was a syndicated columnist for KYODO News, writing about arts and entertainment in her What’s Hot in New York column from 1995-2004. Lia was recently profiled on Asian American Life Lia writes about arts and entertainment on her Backstage Pass with Lia Chang blog. The Lia Chang theater portfolio collection, 1989-2011, is housed in the Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) collection located in the Library of Congress’ Asian Reading Room and can be accessed here; Lia Chang Photography Collection in The Billy Rose Theatre Division of the New York Public Library.

As an actor, Lia made her stage debut as Liat in a national tour of South Pacific with Barbara Eden and Robert Goulet, directed by Geraldine Fitzgerald, and was featured as Joy in Signature Theatre Company's revival of Sam Shepard's 1965 Obie award winning play, Chicago directed by Joseph Chaikin at the Public Theater. Off Broadway credits include: Jeff Weiss' Obie Award winning Hot Keys (Naked Angels), Raunchy Asian Women (Ohio Theatre), The Confirmation (The Vineyard), Behind Closed Doors (MCC), Power Play (Billie Holiday Theatre), Two Gentlemen of Verona, Underground Soap, and Famine Plays (Cucaracha Theatre), Derek Walcott’s Marie Laveau at the Castillo Theatre (New Federal Theatre). 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 stars in and served as Executive Producer for the short independent films Hide and Seek, Balancing Act, Rom-Com Gone Wrong, Belongingness and When the World was Young (2021 DisOrient Film Audience Choice Award for Best Short Narrative).

Awards: 2000 OCA Chinese American Journalist Award, the 2001 AAJA National Award for New Media, 2022 Prospect Muse Award. Lia is an AAJA Executive Leadership Graduate (2000), a Western Knight Fellow at USC’s Annenberg College of Communications for Specialized Journalism on Entertainment Journalism in the Digital Age (2000), a National Press Photographers Association Visual Edge/Visual Journalism Fellow at the Poynter Institute for New Media (2001), a Scripps Howard New Media Fellow at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism (2002), and a National Tropical Garden Environmental Journalism Fellow (2003).

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Each year, nearly one thousand entries are submitted. These entries, or programs, are submitted and evaluated on several factors resulting in over 100 award winners. A panel of over 150 judges from the industry evaluate the entries. Awards are presented to the most creative programs that address community needs, develop diverse community involvement, challenge conventional commercial television formats, and move viewers to experience television in a different way.