About

Known credits:
18
Birthday:
N/A
Place of birth:
N/A
Website:
Click here

Iara Lee

Overview

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.

Known for

Acting
2020 Stalking Chernobyl: Exploration After Apocalypse Actor 59
Average

Directing
2023 Unite for Bissau (Nô Kumpu Guiné): Agroecology and Feminism in Guinea Bissau Directing Director N/A
N/A
2020 Stalking Chernobyl: Exploration After Apocalypse Directing Director 59
Average
2018 Burkinabè Rising - The Art of Resistance in Burkina Faso Directing Director N/A
N/A
2015 Life Is Waiting: Referendum and Resistance in Western Sahara Directing Director 59
Average
2015 K2 & The Invisible Footmen Directing Director 59
Average
2013 Muslimgauze: Chasing the Shadow of Bryn Jones Directing Director N/A
N/A
2012 The Suffering Grasses Directing Director N/A
N/A
2010 Cultures of Resistance Directing Director 59
Average
2010 The Women's Colloquium in Liberia Directing Director N/A
N/A
2009 Battle for the Xingu Directing Director N/A
N/A
1998 Modulations Directing Director 59
Average
1995 Synthetic Pleasures Directing Director 58
Average

Writing
2015 Life Is Waiting: Referendum and Resistance in Western Sahara Writing Writer 59
Average

Production
2020 Stalking Chernobyl: Exploration After Apocalypse Production Producer 59
Average
2018 Burkinabè Rising - The Art of Resistance in Burkina Faso Production Producer N/A
N/A
2015 K2 & The Invisible Footmen Production Producer 59
Average

Camera
2012 The Suffering Grasses Camera Camera Operator N/A
N/A