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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. Fro…
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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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- 2023
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2020
From Trash to Treasure
Movie Director
- 2020
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2019
Wantoks: Dance of Resilience in Melanesia
Movie Director
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2018
Burkinabè Rising - The Art of Resistance in Burkina Faso
Movie Producer
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2018
Burkinabè Bounty
Movie Director
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2015
Life is waiting: referendum and resistance in Western Sahara
Movie Director
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2015
K2 & The Invisible Footmen
Movie Director
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2014
We Are Many
Movie Producer
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2013
Muslimgauze: Chasing the Shadow of Bryn Jones
Movie Director
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2012
The Suffering Grasses
Movie Director
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2010
Cultures of Resistance
Movie Director
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2010
The Women's Colloquium in Liberia
Movie Director
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2010
Sierra Leone Rising
Movie Director
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2009
Battle for the Xingu
Movie Director
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1998
Modulations
Movie Director
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1995
Synthetic Pleasures
Movie Director
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1994
An Autumn Wind
Movie Director
