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. 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.

Iara Lee is known for work in directing across film and television. New Release currently presents 19 verified screen credits connected to this profile.

Selected work includes Stalking Chernobyl: Exploration After Apocalypse (2020), We Are Many (2014), The Sami Song of Survival: Indigenous Activism on the Northern Frontier (2025), Sierra Leone Rising (2010), The Women's Colloquium in Liberia (2010), Modulations (1998), Wantoks: Dance of Resilience in Melanesia (2019), Burkinabè Bounty (2018). The recorded credits span 1994 to 2025, including 19 movies and 0 TV shows.

The filmography below lists available titles, release years and known roles. This profile is updated as additional verified information becomes available.