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    Ukrainian filmmaker hopes burgeoning local industry perseveres

    by Anousha Sakoui, Los Angeles Times Feb 25, 2022 4 minutes
    Cars sit at a standstill as people try to leave the city on Feb. 24, 2022, in Kyiv, Ukraine.

    As Russia began its invasion of Ukraine on Thursday, local filmmaker Olga Zhurzhenko fled Kyiv, where she had been working on an animated feature, and drove to Odessa to be closer to her family. She was growing worried as she was joined on the roads by her colleagues and other Ukranians leaving the capital city.

    A member of the Producers Guild of America, Zhurzhenko was supervising a team of 13 working on an animated movie called "The Peasants," made by the Polish studio Breakthru Films, which recently made the Oscar-nominated "Loving Vincent."

    Zhurzhenko has been supervising animators at the Kyiv-based studio for their latest project, which employs the same fully painted techniques seen in the 2017

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