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About Director

⁣Maya Yonesho was born in Japan and now resides in Stuttgart, Germany. Her abstract animated works explore wordless intercultural and interpersonal understanding using landscape, sound, and voice. Since 2006 she has traveled to 22 countries in 3 continents, conducting animation workshops and making personal films to create her “Daumenreise” series. These works set individual expressive, hand-held, animations in real places enabling viewers to see personal visions in collective spaces. In addition to this ongoing work, Maya does freelance animation and lectures internationally. She believes that animation has the power to celebrate culture and community and create bridges worldwide.