Iara Lee
Directing
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.
Behind the camera
2025The Sami Song of Survival: Indigenous Activism on the Northern Frontier
Director
2023Unite for Bissau (Nô Kumpu Guiné): Agroecology and Feminism in Guinea Bissau
Director
2020From Trash to Treasure
Director
2020Stalking Chernobyl: Exploration After Apocalypse
Director
2019Wantoks: Dance of Resilience in Melanesia
Director
2018Burkinabè Rising - The Art of Resistance in Burkina Faso
Director
2018Burkinabè Bounty
Director
2015Life is waiting: referendum and resistance in Western Sahara
Director & Writer
2015K2 & The Invisible Footmen
Director
2013Muslimgauze: Chasing the Shadow of Bryn Jones
Director
2010Cultures of Resistance
Director
2010The Women's Colloquium in Liberia
Director
2010Sierra Leone Rising
Director
1998Modulations
Director
1995Synthetic Pleasures
Director