Osnat Shurer

Osnat Shurer was born in 1958 in Kfar Saba

Shurer was born in Kfar Saba in 1958. Her mother was a teacher, and her father served as an officer in the British Army and the IDF and later managed El Al stations in Istanbul, Johannesburg and Stockholm. She studied in schools in Israel and abroad, and her older brother Ziv was killed in the Yom Kippur War.

She served in the IDF Intelligence Corps. In 1983 she earned a degree in film from New York University.

Before 2002 she produced and directed live action, animation, television, theater and museum presentations. She worked on documentaries in places such as India, China, Tibet and Japan, with directors including Michelangelo Antonioni and Alfonso Cuarón.

She joined Pixar in 2002 and became executive producer of its shorts group, working on Oscar-nominated shorts such as Boundin', One Man Band and Lifted. In 2012 she moved to Disney, where she produced Moana and Raya and the Last Dragon and created story trusts of Pacific Island and Southeast Asian consultants.

Since 2023 she has been co-chief creative officer of Baobab Studios. She lives in California and supports the ARTSzheimer's project.