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Iara Lee (Brasília, 1966) is a Korean Brazilian film producer, director and activist who works mainly in the Middle East and Africa. She is the director of the documentaries ''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. Lee 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, among many other organizations.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/PageFiles/164969/annual_report_2009.pdf )〕 ==Film career== From 1984 to 1989, Lee was the producer of the Sao Paulo International Film Festival in Brazil. From 1989 to 2003, while based in New York, she ran the mixed-media company Caipirinha Productions to explore the synergy of different artforms (such as film, music, architecture, and poetry). Under that banner, Iara has directed short and feature-length documentaries including ''Synthetic Pleasures'', ''Modulations'', ''Architettura'', and ''Beneath the Borqa''. ''Synthetic Pleasures'', released in 1995, deals with the impact of high technology on mass culture. The multimedia project ''Modulations'', released in 1998, 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. In 2010, Lee directed the feature-length documentary film, ''Cultures of Resistance'', which celebrates creative acts of political struggle. The film debuted in its final form late in 2010, after which it screened at many film festivals, including the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, and won numerous awards.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://films.culturesofresistance.org/awards )〕 Notably, the film was screened at the Beijing International Film Festival in 2011, defying the norms in a country where political resistance is rarely depicted in the media.〔(【引用サイトリンク】work=The Strand )〕 Lee's subsequent projects include a short film, ''The Kalasha and the Crescent'' (2013), on the ways that the Kalash indigenous people of northern Pakistan are responding to the challenges facing their culture; and a documentary entitled ''The Suffering Grasses: when elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers'',〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2322540/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 )〕 (2012) which explores the Syrian conflict from the perspective of the civilians who have been displaced to refugee camps. ''The Suffering Grasses'' came out of footage taken during Lee's participation in a press delegation to Turkish refugee camps housing Syrians in exile.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.frontlineclub.com/scrrening_the_suffering_grasses_-_iara_lee/ )〕 Lee's newest films are ''Life Is Waiting: Referendum and Resistance in Western Sahara'' (2015)''〔http://allafrica.com/stories/201503171516.html〕'', which chronicles the everyday violence of life under occupation in Western Sahara, and ''K2 and the Invisible Footmen'' (2015),〔http://portside.org/2015-05-14/tidbits-may-14-2015-tpp-stop-and-frisk-white-americans-and-police-accountability-vietnam#16〕 which documents the unsung efforts of the indigenous porters who for decades have facilitated the ascent of the Earth's second-highest mountain. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Iara Lee」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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