Iara Lee

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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.

Film	Credit
The Sami Song of Survival: Indigenous Activism on the Northern Frontier2025 · Director	Director
Unite for Bissau (Nô Kumpu Guiné): Agroecology and Feminism in Guinea Bissau2023 · Director	Director
From Trash to Treasure2020 · Director	Director
Stalking Chernobyl: Exploration After Apocalypse2020 · Actor, Director, Producer	Actor, Director, Producer
Wantoks: Dance of Resilience in Melanesia2019 · Director, Producer	Director, Producer
Burkinabè Rising - The Art of Resistance in Burkina Faso2018 · Director, Producer	Director, Producer
Burkinabè Bounty2018 · Director	Director
Life is waiting: referendum and resistance in Western Sahara2015 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
K2 & The Invisible Footmen2015 · Director, Producer	Director, Producer
We Are Many2014 · Producer	Producer
Muslimgauze: Chasing the Shadow of Bryn Jones2013 · Director	Director
TThe Suffering Grasses2012 · Director	Director
Cultures of Resistance2010 · Director	Director
The Women's Colloquium in Liberia2010 · Director	Director
Sierra Leone Rising2010 · Director	Director
BBattle for the Xingu2009 · Director	Director
Modulations1998 · Director	Director
Synthetic Pleasures1995 · Director	Director
AAn Autumn Wind1994 · Director	Director