Brazil / South Korea

Iara Lee, a Brazilian of Korean descent, is an activist, filmmaker, and founder / director of the Cultures of Resistance Network. As a filmmaker, Iara has directed/produced several full-length documentaries and dozens of shorts. Her most current projects include two documentaries: Stalking Chernobyl, which examines the underground culture of the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone three decades after the world’s most infamous nuclear disaster; and Burkinabé Rising.

Filmography

Synthetic Pleasures (1995)
Modulations: Cinema for the Ear (1998)
Battle for the Xingu (2009)
Cultures of Resistance (2010)
The Suffering Grasses (2012)
The Kalasha and the Crescent (2013)
Burkinabè Bounty (2018)
Burkinabè Rising (2018)
Wantoks: Dance of Resilience in Melanesia (2019)