A Syrian Animator and Motion Designer, based in Barcelona, Spain. In 2015, Ashtar graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts, at Damascus University majoring in Visual Communications. Due to being severely injured 4 days before her graduation date, her graduation ceremony was held in her hospital room. Ashtar started her journey in the animation world in 2012 when she trained as an intern at Dream Catcher Studio in Damascus. Shortly after, she joined the animators’ team at the studio and worked on remarkable projects like Danyah Cartoon for MBC3. In 2017, Ashtar left Syria to work as a Motion Designer in Moscow, Russia. She also joined the HitRecord curators’ team and worked on incredible community projects for Zappos and Netflix with amazing collaborations with Joseph Gordon Levitt and Jesica Alba. In 2022, Ashtar moved to Barcelona, Spain to continue her higher education specializing in Motion Design at Idep Barcelona where she made her dream of graduating one more time on her feet and outside of her hospital bed come true. Her first official Animated short Kano 4 was her graduation project where she chose to tell her personal story of surviving the missile that hit her house in 2015 and her journey of coming back to life and learning how to walk again.