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 con…
The Sami Song of Survival: Indigenous Activism on the Northern Frontier
2025 · Director
Unite for Bissau (Nô Kumpu Guiné): Agroecology and Feminism in Guinea Bissau
2023 · Director
From Trash to Treasure
2020 · Director
Stalking Chernobyl: Exploration After Apocalypse
2020
Stalking Chernobyl: Exploration After Apocalypse
2020 · Director
Stalking Chernobyl: Exploration After Apocalypse
2020 · Producer
Wantoks: Dance of Resilience in Melanesia
2019 · Director
Wantoks: Dance of Resilience in Melanesia
2019 · Producer
Burkinabè Rising - The Art of Resistance in Burkina Faso
2018 · Director
Burkinabè Rising - The Art of Resistance in Burkina Faso
2018 · Producer
Burkinabè Bounty
2018 · Director
Life is waiting: referendum and resistance in Western Sahara
2015 · Director
Life is waiting: referendum and resistance in Western Sahara
2015 · Writer
K2 & The Invisible Footmen
2015 · Director
K2 & The Invisible Footmen
2015 · Producer
We Are Many
2014 · Producer
Muslimgauze: Chasing the Shadow of Bryn Jones
2013 · Director
The Suffering Grasses
2012 · Director
The Suffering Grasses
2012 · Camera Operator
Cultures of Resistance
2010 · Director
The Women's Colloquium in Liberia
2010 · Director
Sierra Leone Rising
2010 · Director
Battle for the Xingu
2009 · Director
Modulations
1998 · Director
Synthetic Pleasures
1995 · Director
An Autumn Wind
1994 · Director
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