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Maya Yoneshō (米正 万也) is an independent Japanese animator. Her short, abstract animation "believe in it" (1998) was awarded the Excellence Prize in the Animation Division of the 1999 Japan Media Arts Festival, and her works have been shown in film festivals in such countries as the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Brazil, Canada, Ukraine, Australia, Mexico, Croatia, Finland, the Netherlands, Italy, Taiwan, the People's Republic of China, Argentina, Cuba, Estonia, Hungary, and India. She participated in the award-winning collaboration, Winter Days, and seven of her works made between 1997 and 2003 have been collected on a DVD, "DVD KINOMAYA Maya Yoneshō Collection of Short Abstract Animation" (DVD KINOMAYA　米正万也　抽象アニメーション短編集).

Born in 1965, Yoneshō attended the Kyoto Saga Junior College of Arts where she received a degree in Visual Design in 1986. After working for several years as an art teacher at two junior high schools in Takatsuki City, Osaka Prefecture, Yoneshō enrolled in the Kyoto City University of Arts