Iara Lee (Ponta Grossa, Brazil, 1966) is a Brazilian film producer, director and activist of Korean descent who works mainly in the Middle East and Africa. Her documentary films include Unite for Bissau (Nô Kumpu Guiné)[1] (2023), From Trash to Treasure: Turning Negatives into Positives[2] (2020), Stalking Chernobyl: Exploration After Apocalypse[3] (2020), Wantoks: Dance of Resilience in Melanesia[4] (2019), Burkinabè Rising: The Art of Resistance in Burkina Faso[5][6] (2018), Burkinabè Bounty: Agroecology in Burkina Faso[7] (2018), Life Is Waiting: Referendum and Resistance in Western Sahara[8] (2015), K2 and the Invisible Footmen[9] (2015), The Kalasha and the Crescent (2013), The Suffering Grasses (2012), Cultures of Resistance (2010), Beneath the Borqa in Afghanistan (2002), Architettura (1999), Modulations: Cinema for the Ear (1998), Synthetic Pleasures (1995), and An Autumn Wind (1994). In 2010, Lee was involved in the "Gaza Freedom Flotilla," where nine pro-Palestinian activists were killed by Israeli naval forces and many were injured.
Lee is the founder of the Cultures of Resistance Network Foundation (formerly named the Caipirinha Foundation) and a longtime supporter of Greenpeace International, Amnesty International, Center for Constitutional Rights, Committee to Protect Journalists, and Doctors Without Borders, among many other organizations.[10]