Iara Lee
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.
Como dirección
The Sami Song of Survival: Indigenous Activism on the Northern Frontier
Unite for Bissau (Nô Kumpu Guiné): Agroecology and Feminism in Guinea Bissau
From Trash to Treasure
Acechando a Chernóbil: Exploración después del Apocalipsis
Wantoks: Dance of Resilience in Melanesia
Burkinabè Rising - The Art of Resistance in Burkina Faso
Burkinabè Bounty
Life is waiting: referendum and resistance in Western Sahara
K2 & The Invisible Footmen
Muslimgauze: Chasing the Shadow of Bryn Jones
The Suffering Grasses
Cultures of Resistance
The Women's Colloquium in Liberia
Sierra Leone Rising
Battle for the Xingu
Modulations
Synthetic Pleasures
An Autumn Wind