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 most recent project is Stalking Chernobyl: Exploration After Apocalypse (2020), a documentary about life in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. Her other documentaries include Wantoks: Dance of Resilience in Melanesia (2019), Burkinabè Rising: The Art of Resistance in Burkina Faso (2018), Burkinabè Bounty: Agroecology in Burkina Faso (2018), Life Is Waiting: Referendum and Resistance in Western Sahara (2015), K2 and the Invisible Footmen (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.
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April 1966 (age 59) Ponta Grossa, Parana, Brazil
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