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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.

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Film Production

Camera Operator:
2012  The Suffering Grasses

Director:
1995  Synthetic Pleasures
1998  Modulations
2009  Battle for the Xingu
2010  Cultures of Resistance
2010  Sierra Leone Rising
2010  The Women's Colloquium in Liberia
2012  The Suffering Grasses
2013  Muslimgauze: Chasing the Shadow of Bryn Jones
2015  K2 & The Invisible Footmen
2015  Life Is Waiting: Referendum and Resistance in Western Sahara
2018  Burkinabè Bounty
2018  Burkinabè Rising - The Art of Resistance in Burkina Faso
2019  Wantoks: Dance of Resilience in Melanesia
2020  From Trash to Treasure
2020  Stalking Chernobyl: Exploration After Apocalypse
2023  Unite for Bissau (Nô Kumpu Guiné): Agroecology and Feminism in Guinea Bissau

Producer:
1995  Synthetic Pleasures
1998  Modulations
2009  Battle for the Xingu
2010  Cultures of Resistance
2010  Sierra Leone Rising
2010  The Women's Colloquium in Liberia
2012  The Suffering Grasses
2013  Muslimgauze: Chasing the Shadow of Bryn Jones
2015  K2 & The Invisible Footmen
2015  Life Is Waiting: Referendum and Resistance in Western Sahara
2018  Burkinabè Bounty
2018  Burkinabè Rising - The Art of Resistance in Burkina Faso
2019  Wantoks: Dance of Resilience in Melanesia
2020  From Trash to Treasure
2020  Stalking Chernobyl: Exploration After Apocalypse
2023  Unite for Bissau (Nô Kumpu Guiné): Agroecology and Feminism in Guinea Bissau

Writer:
1995  Synthetic Pleasures
1998  Modulations
2009  Battle for the Xingu
2010  Cultures of Resistance
2010  Sierra Leone Rising
2010  The Women's Colloquium in Liberia
2012  The Suffering Grasses
2013  Muslimgauze: Chasing the Shadow of Bryn Jones
2015  K2 & The Invisible Footmen
2015  Life Is Waiting: Referendum and Resistance in Western Sahara
2018  Burkinabè Bounty
2018  Burkinabè Rising - The Art of Resistance in Burkina Faso
2019  Wantoks: Dance of Resilience in Melanesia
2020  From Trash to Treasure
2020  Stalking Chernobyl: Exploration After Apocalypse
2023  Unite for Bissau (Nô Kumpu Guiné): Agroecology and Feminism in Guinea Bissau

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