Director/Writer/Producer/Editor/Composer/Novelist/Change Maker! The small-town Texas native has worked on over thirty short films and, most recently, edited the feature film Night Fliers. The multi award-winning artist began her career at Killer Films and later worked with directors Betty Thomas, Douglas McGrath, and Lucy Walker. In 2004, Charlton-Trujillo won the prestigious Delacorte Dell Yearling Award for her first novel Prizefighter En Mi Casa. Prizefighter also won the Parents' Choice Silver Honor and been named a National Council for the Social Studies Notable Book and featured on the NYC Public Library Teenage List. Her second novel, Feels Like Home, received critical praise and earned her yet another NYC Public Library Teenage List Award. She recently created an original one hour drama concept, Fallen, that was shot in July 2009 in Cincinnati, Ohio. Charlton-Trujillo took the top prize at the 2009 Cincinnati Fringe Festival for directing the short film Vanessa Rising and will return to the Fringe Festival 2010 directing The Global Lovers for the stage.