Lights up, sound speed and cameras rolling!

CAUSE teams up with filmmaker Milton Liu (Executive Director of Asian American Media Alliance) and AANHPI creatives across film, TV and the digital space to turn storytelling into real-world impact.

In LA County alone, there are 700,000 registered AAPI voters, yet fewer than one in three showed up to cast their ballot in the last two general elections... a gap that doesn’t reflect the size, growth, or influence of our community. So we’re flipping the script: making civic engagement more visible, more accessible, and yes… a little more fun.

When CAUSE brought a mobile voting booth to Haunted Little Tokyo in 2024, it generated the highest number of mobile votes ever recorded in LA County! It’s verifiable proof that when you meet people where they are, they show up. That’s the energy we’re building, because our stories don’t just belong on screen, they deserve a voice in shaping the future.

Part of CAUSE’s 2026 Together We Vote Initiative

MILTON LIU

Executive Director (Asian American Media Alliance), Writer and Filmmaker – AWESOME ASIAN BAD GUYS, JOHN HUGHES RUINED MY LIFE, I HATE BIG PHONY, LUCKY GRANDMA

I’m honored to be joining CAUSE and other AANHPI creatives for #HollywoodVotes and to share why I vote. As a filmmaker, I’ve called Los Angeles home for almost two decades now. Long enough to remember when you could find easy parking for Cafe Bleu...

To me, voting is personal, immediate, and woven into how I move through the world.

As a Stage IV cancer survivor, I know firsthand that healthcare policy isn’t theoretical. It determines access, affordability, and whether people get the care they need when it matters most.

Being a second-generation American raised in the Midwest (hence the terrible accent), immigration policy isn’t an abstract debate. It influences whether entire communities live with a sense of safety or constant uncertainty.

And in my creative field, I’ve seen how studio and network consolidation has led to fewer productions, fewer jobs, and fewer opportunities to tell our stories.

I’ve watched these forces play out in real time, not as headlines but as lived consequences that ripple into what paths are available, and who gets to take them.

So I vote.

Because the choices made today shape our health, our safety, our stories and our future.