Anastasia Babenko's "The Diaper Cake," her first narrative short film, which she directed and wrote, is included in this year's Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia, one of the largest international festivals of its kind in the region.Babenko, however, describes herself as a Ukrainian filmmaker in a "previous life." Now, Russia's war against her country has irreversibly altered her reality, and she is wholly focused on raising awareness and funds from her home in Seattle."Everything feels very irrelevant," including filmmaking, she said in an online interview. She is not a soldier or a medical…READ FULL ARTICLE
