Iara Lee

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Iara Lee, a Brazilian of Korean descent, is an activist, filmmaker, and founder/director of the Cultures of Resistance Network, an organization that promotes global solidarity and connects and supports agitators, educators, farmers, and artists to build a more just and peaceful world through…

Director

The Sami Song of Survival: Indigenous Activism on The Northern Frontier(2025)

Unite for Bissau (Nô Kumpu Guiné): Agroecology and Feminism in Guinea Bissau(2023)

From Trash to Treasure: Turning Negatives Into Positives(2020)

Stalking Chernobyl: Exploration After Apocalypse(2020)

Wantoks: Dance of Resilience in Melanesia(2020)

Writer

Unite for Bissau (Nô Kumpu Guiné): Agroecology and Feminism in Guinea Bissau(2023)

Life is Waiting: Referendum and Resistance in Western Sahara(2015)

The Kalasha and the Crescent(2013)

Fishing Under Fire(2010)

Producer

Unite for Bissau (Nô Kumpu Guiné): Agroecology and Feminism in Guinea Bissau(2023)

From Trash to Treasure: Turning Negatives Into Positives(2020)

Wantoks: Dance of Resilience in Melanesia(2020)

Better Must Come: A Dispatch from Malawi(2020)

Burkinabè Rising: The Art of Resistance in Burkina Faso(2018)

Cinematographer

Fishing Under Fire(2010)

Camera and Electrical Department

The Kalasha and the Crescent(2013)

The Suffering Grasses: When Elephants Fight, It Is the Grass That Suffers(2012)

Self

Afrika FilmFestival Interviews(1996)as Self - Interviewee

WFA Previews(2018)as Self

Mod MTV(2011)as Self - Director of the film Cultures of Resistance

Democracy Now!(2001)as Self