Question: Did Nicholas Hytner and Maya Deren work in the same role in the film industry?

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Bruce Yonemoto (born 1949) is a Japanese-American multimedia artist.  His work has been recognized by the National Endowment for the Arts, the American Film Institute, The Rockefeller Foundation, the Maya Deren Award for Experimental Film and Video, and a mid-career survey show at the Japanese American National Museum, in addition to major solo exhibitions at the InterCommunication Center in Tokyo, the Institute of Contemporary Art the University of Pennsylvania, and the Kemper Museum in Kansas City, MO.  Yonemoto was featured in the 2002 Corcoran Gallery Bienniel, in Washington D.C. Yonemoto was also a recipient of the Creative Capital Visual Arts Award in 2008. Filmworks X: In the Mirror of Maya Deren features a score for film by John Zorn.  The album was released on Zorn's own label, Tzadik Records, in 2001 and contains music that Zorn wrote and recorded for the documentary film "In the Mirror of Maya Deren" on the life and work of Maya Deren directed by Martina Kudlácek. The American Film Institute Award for Independent Film and Video Artists, subtitled and generally known as the Maya Deren Award, was an award presented to filmmakers and video artists by the American Film Institute to honor independent filmmaking.  Named for the avant-garde experimental film artist Maya Deren, it was given from 1986 through 1996. Maya Deren (April 29, 1917 – October 13, 1961), born Eleanora Derenkowskaia (Russian: Элеоно́ра Деренко́вская ), was a Russian-American filmmaker and one of the most important American experimental filmmakers and entrepreneurial promoters of the avant-garde in the 1940s and 1950s.  Deren was also a choreographer, dancer, film theorist, poet, lecturer, writer and photographer. Teiji Ito (伊藤貞司 , Itō Teiji , January 22, 1935 – August 16, 1982) was a Japanese composer and performer.  He is best known for his scores for the avant-garde films by Maya Deren.  The independent filmmaker, Barbara Hammer, continues to promote and educate the world about both Teiji and his wife, Maya Deren. Sir Nicholas Robert Hytner (born 7 May 1956) is an English theatre director, film director, and film producer.  He was previously the Artistic Director of London's National Theatre.  His major successes while director include "Miss Saigon", "The History Boys" and "One Man, Two Guvnors". Chao-Li Chi (; April 5, 1927 – October 16, 2010) was a Shanxi-born actor and dancer who worked extensively in American television, including his best known role as Chao-Li, the faithful majordomo and chauffeur of Jane Wyman's character in "Falcon Crest".  Additionally, his film credits include "Big Trouble in Little China", "The Joy Luck Club", "The Nutty Professor", "Wedding Crashers" and "The Prestige".  He was featured in the short film by Maya Deren, "Meditation on Violence", in 1948. The documentary In the Mirror of Maya Deren ("Im Spiegel der Maya Deren", 2002) is a film about avant garde filmmaker Maya Deren (1917-1961) by Austrian film maker Martina Kudlacek.  It is based on the biography "The Legend of Maya Deren". Illusions & Mirrors is a 2013 short film directed by Iranian-born American artist and filmmaker Shirin Neshat.  The film, shot in black-and-white, stars Tarek Aylouch, Michael Markiewicz, and the Israeli-born American actress Natalie Portman.  The film was commissioned by Dior, for which Portman is a spokesmodel, for the Miss Dior Expo at the Grand Palais, Paris.  Shirin Neshat said that the film is a tribute to the black-and-white silent films made by such surrealist filmmakers as Man Ray, Jean Cocteau, Luis Buñuel, and Maya Deren. At Land (1944) is a 15-minute silent experimental film written, directed by, and starring Maya Deren.  It has a dream-like narrative in which a woman, played by Deren, is washed up on a beach and goes on a strange journey encountering other people and other versions of herself.  Deren once said that the film is about the struggle to maintain one's personal identity.

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Maya Deren (April 29, 1917 – October 13, 1961), born Eleanora Derenkowskaia (Russian: Элеоно́ра Деренко́вская ), was a Russian-American filmmaker and one of the most important American experimental filmmakers and entrepreneurial promoters of the avant-garde in the 1940s and 1950s.  Deren was also a choreographer, dancer, film theorist, poet, lecturer, writer and photographer.