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America Young was awarded the 2020 Humanitarian award by UCSD for her work promoting women and diversity in the film industry.

America is currently working in Film, TV, Animation and Video Games, as a Director. To date, she has directed 19 episodes for Network TV, two features, a season of an animated show, a video game and four digital series.

Having stunt coordinated for years, America transitioned to directing seven years ago. While having a solid foundation in action, she is also known for her ability to bring out the best performances in actors, both drama and comedy, while translating subtle and rich story points visually on screen. The projects she has helmed have a wide range from a drag queen comedy to sci-fi action to fantasy action to coming of age drama to exploring domestic violence in a superhero universe.

Her first feature, “The Concessionaires Must Die!!” executive produced by Stan Lee (www.cmdthemovie.com) is now available on Itunes, Amazon and other VOD platforms. Her second feature, “Back to Lyla” which is Alice in Wonderland meets Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind inspired, was acquired by 1091 and released June 2022. Upon completion of the Warner Bros directing program, she successfully entered the TV world. She has now directed 19 episodes of TV for Netflix, Amazon, Blumhouse, Warner Bros, CBS, BET+, Paramount and she directed the pilot of Surfside Girls for Apple TV which got a full season order.

America was pivotal in the rebranding of Barbie with the Barbie Vlog in 2015 and directed the critically acclaimed season of the Barbie motion capture animated series for Mattel which was featured on VICE, Vogue, Glamour and Newsweek among other publications. It has been viewed on youtube over 200 million times and went from 500k subscribers to 13.1 million in the time she has been working on the Brand. Also, in the Unreal/virtual production space, she directed the cinematics for Resident Evil: Shadows of Rose which was named #8 video game of the year by Time Magazine. She is currently Motion Capture Director on a new project in Japan which hasn't been announced yet.

She is a proud founder of The Chimaera Project, a nonprofit that gives opportunities to women in the film & media arts (www.chimaeraproject.org).

When America’s not kicking the crap out of Super-Heroes that support the Superhuman Registration Act or setting herself on fire, she enjoys telling stories, sipping herbal tea and sharpening her pair of Sai.