Iara Lee Video | Clips from Films Directed and Interviews

Iara Lee is a Korean Brazilian film producer, director and activist who works mainly in the Middle East and Africa. She is better known as the director of the documentaries Synthetic Pleasures, Modulations and Cultures of Resistance, as well as for her involvement with the "Gaza Freedom Flotilla", where during resistance followed by a struggle nine pro-Palestinian activists were killed by Israeli naval forces and many were injured. She is the founder of the Cultures of Resistance Network Foundation (formerly named the Caipirinha Foundation), a member of the Council of Advisors to the... MORE

Iara Lee is a Korean Brazilian film producer, director and activist who works mainly in the Middle East and Africa. She is better known as the director of the documentaries Synthetic Pleasures, Modulations and Cultures of Resistance, as well as for her involvement with the "Gaza Freedom Flotilla", where during resistance followed by a struggle nine pro-Palestinian activists were killed by Israeli naval forces and many were injured. She is the founder of the Cultures of Resistance Network Foundation (formerly named the Caipirinha Foundation), a member of the Council of Advisors to the National Geographic Society and a longtime supporter of Greenpeace International. In 1995, she released the documentary Synthetic Pleasures, which deals with the impact of high technology on mass culture. In 1998, she released the multimedia project Modulations, which traces the evolution of electronic music. Her next film was Beneath the Borqa, a 2000 short documentary film about the lives of women and children under the Taliban regime in Afghanistan. Lee also directed the feature-length documentary film, Cultures of Resistance, which celebrates creative acts of political struggle. The film debuted LESS