Iara Lee

Iara Lee

Directing
19 credits
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Iara Lee is a Brazilian film director, producer and activist of Korean descent. From 1984 to 1989, she was the producer of the Sao Paulo International Film Festival in Brazil. From 1989 to 2003, she was based in New York City, where she ran the mixed-media company Caipirinha Productions. She is the founder of Cultures of Resistance Network, an organization that promotes global solidarity through creative resistance and nonviolent action, and the director of Cultures of Resistance Films. At the onset of the Iraq war in 2003, she decided to live in the MENA region in order to understand the conflict from that perspective. She spent extensive time in Syria, Yemen, Tunisia, Jordan, Lebanon, and Iran. In May 2010, she was a passenger on the MV Mavi Marmara, a vessel in the Gaza Freedom Flotilla that was attacked in international waters by the Israeli navy, leading to the murder of nine humanitarian aid workers.
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Filmography
Directing 18 credits
The Women's Colloquium in Liberia
The Women's Colloquium in Liberia
2010 · Director
Stalking Chernobyl: Exploration After Apocalypse
Stalking Chernobyl: Exploration After Apocalypse
2020 · Director, Producer
The Sami Song of Survival: Indigenous Activism on the Northern Frontier
The Sami Song of Survival: Indigenous Activism on the Northern Frontier
2025 · Director
Wantoks: Dance of Resilience in Melanesia
Wantoks: Dance of Resilience in Melanesia
2019 · Director, Producer
Burkinabè Bounty
Burkinabè Bounty
2018 · Director
K2 & The Invisible Footmen
K2 & The Invisible Footmen
2015 · Director, Producer
The Suffering Grasses
The Suffering Grasses
2012 · Director, Camera Operator
Cultures of Resistance
Cultures of Resistance
2010 · Director
Muslimgauze: Chasing the Shadow of Bryn Jones
Muslimgauze: Chasing the Shadow of Bryn Jones
2013 · Director
Unite for Bissau (Nô Kumpu Guiné): Agroecology and Feminism in Guinea Bissau
Unite for Bissau (Nô Kumpu Guiné): Agroecology and Feminism in Guinea Bissau
2023 · Director
An Autumn Wind
An Autumn Wind
1994 · Director
Burkinabè Rising - The Art of Resistance in Burkina Faso
Burkinabè Rising - The Art of Resistance in Burkina Faso
2018 · Director, Producer
Battle for the Xingu
Battle for the Xingu
2009 · Director
Synthetic Pleasures
Synthetic Pleasures
1995 · Director
Sierra Leone Rising
Sierra Leone Rising
2010 · Director
Modulations
Modulations
1998 · Director
Life is waiting: referendum and resistance in Western Sahara
Life is waiting: referendum and resistance in Western Sahara
2015 · Director, Writer
From Trash to Treasure
From Trash to Treasure
2020 · Director
Producing 5 credits
We Are Many
We Are Many
2014 · Producer
Stalking Chernobyl: Exploration After Apocalypse
Stalking Chernobyl: Exploration After Apocalypse
2020 · Director, Producer
Wantoks: Dance of Resilience in Melanesia
Wantoks: Dance of Resilience in Melanesia
2019 · Director, Producer
K2 & The Invisible Footmen
K2 & The Invisible Footmen
2015 · Director, Producer
Burkinabè Rising - The Art of Resistance in Burkina Faso
Burkinabè Rising - The Art of Resistance in Burkina Faso
2018 · Director, Producer
Acting 1 credit
The Suffering Grasses
The Suffering Grasses
2012 · Director, Camera Operator
Writing 1 credit
Life is waiting: referendum and resistance in Western Sahara
Life is waiting: referendum and resistance in Western Sahara
2015 · Director, Writer
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