Cultures of Resistance Films
Israeli Attack on the Mavi Marmara - 1 hour raw footage (2010)
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🇪🇭 What will it take for the people of Western Sahara to reverse decades of broken promises and gain their freedom? What lessons does Sahrawi resistance offer for nonviolent movements around the world? Join an incredible cast of Sahrawi activists and artists as they offer their answers.
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❓ More than four decades after its people were promised freedom by departing Spanish rulers, the Western Sahara remains Africa’s last colony.
➡️ While a UN-brokered ceasefire put an end to armed hostilities in the territory in 1991, the Sahrawi people have continued to live under the Moroccan armed forces' oppressive occupation. What peace exists in the area is fragile at best.
➡️ Tens of thousands of Sahrawis have fled to neighboring Algeria, where over 125,000 refugees still live in camps that were intended to be temporary.
🔶 In spite of these difficulties, a new movement, with youth at its center, is rising to challenge human rights abuses and to demand the long-promised referendum on freedom. Today’s young generation is deploying creative nonviolent resistance for the cause of self-determination. In doing so, they are persevering against a torrent of conflicting forces. While risking torture and disappearance at the hands of Moroccan authorities, they are also pushing back against those who have lost patience with the international community and are ready to launch another guerrilla war.
This film, from director iara lee, examines these tensions and chronicles the everyday violence of life under occupation, giving voice to the aspirations of a desert people for whom colonialism has never ended.
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🌎 Since 2015, 'LIFE IS WAITING: Referendum and Resistance in Western Sahara' has been screened in almost 100 countries, from refugee camps to red carpet galas.
🏆 The film has won 10 awards at different film festivals around the globe
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🇪🇭 #FreeWesternSahara ✋ Learn how you can ❗TAKE ACTION ❗
❇️FOLLOW US ON INSTAGRAM - @culturesofresistance / @iara_lee
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🎥 Director, Producer: Iara Lee
Co-Producer: Salah Abdelahe
Director of Photography: Jose Yeray Martin
2nd Camera: Eduardo Souto Fraguas
Editor: Martin Eller
Sound: Jordi Oriola Folch
Music: Mariem Hassan
➔ In this charged context, captivating performers are using their talents to celebrate local culture and draw international attention to their islands’ plight, with the hope of spurring international solidarity and promoting collective action against the perils of a warming world.
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▪️ Subtitles (CC) : English, Español, Français, λληνικά, Italiano, Português
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🎥 Director/Producer: Iara Lee - Korean-Brazilian 🇰🇷 🇧🇷 activist filmmaker, world traveler and sports enthusiast 🏊🏻♀️🏃🏼♀️ 🚴🏻♀️ INSTAGRAM: @iara_lee
Editors: Dimo Petkov and Silvio Montanaro
Drone Cinematography: Andrew and Karl Bouro
Sound Design/Music/Mix: Kaloyan Dimitrov
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✋ Learn how you can ❗TAKE ACTION ❗
❇️FOLLOW US ON INSTAGRAM - @culturesofresistance / see our website
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FREE WEST PAPUA!
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🔸All of David’s films and music are available to watch and listen to for free on his website:
- http://david-fedele.com
- Facebook: facebook.com/david.fedele.92
- Instagram: instagram.com/davidfedele01
➡️ Learn more about Cultures of Resistance Films: culturesofresistancefilms.com
More about iara lee: culturesofresistancefilms.com/about-the-director
And tampered with our blessings from conception
Discredited our ambitions of higher aspirations
Tied our fates with traditional bindings
Decreed the degradation of our existence
I wanna tell him he's got da nerve!
Listen
Who is this conman so afraid of our femininity?
Running his mouth disseminating slanderous mockery?
Colonizing our abilities and calling it culture?
Demeaning our intelligence and calling it hormones?
Dear Lord, as if he knows their significance!!
Where does he get the nerve...?
Say... tell me this........
Where does this charlatan get his ridiculous notions of grandeur?
Violently advocating the extinction of the enlightened goddess?
Banning us to menial drudgery asserting his falseness!
Using his fist to suppress his superiors, my god how inferior!!
Yet we are strong enough, we bring mankind into existence.
His nerve......!
Say...... why.......
Why are WE afraid of this impostor?
Shifting the blame like we don’t tango to the same song?
Content to sing along instead of leading by example
Shackled to the misguided fears of an inferiority complex and
Begging for humiliation and displaying the scars like trophies
Now you go the nerve...!
Overcome this confinement of perpetual slavery
Stand your ground in the face of this oppressor,
Fight for your humanity as a people, your identity as a culture,
Your rights as individuals, your stand as equals,
Tell this bigot he's got the nerve..!
Stop giving away pieces of your integrity for an illusion
Nourishing his wickedness with buckets of your tears
Hiding his weaknesses and demeaning your stature
And hiding from your strength and lurking in his shadow
Show him you've got the nerve................!
Yank out this hypocrite from the mantra of your destiny
Deny him your essence for a mere presence in your heart
Show him the gate of the lost city of the ignorant
Tell him....
I said tell him your preference can never be changed his opinion!!
HE'S GOT THE NERVE...!
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Born in Zimbabwe but now a naturalized Mosotho who has lived in Lesotho for over twenty years, Siphiwe Nzima-Ntšekhe is an activist who uses her poetry and songs to stimulate the masses. Her work is an infusion of spoken word, African melodies, and traditional drumbeats and is inspired by contemporary Afro-pop artists. Her passion for protecting African children has led her to perform poems about human rights, gender-based violence, and child abuse.
🔔 Check out more from Siphiwe: soundcloud.com/siphiwe-nzima-ntsekhe
📢 About Creative Activism Awards:
In July 2020, director iara lee created the Creative Activism Awards to give back to people and organizations who have been featured in or have collaborated on documentaries by Cultures of Resistance Films. The awards encourage recipients to maintain and expand their important work in pursuit of social justice and creative expression.
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See the full movie From Trash to Treasure - Turning Negatives into Positives youtube.com/watch?v=udLsJuTKrmo
Find out more about Creative Activism Awards -
culturesofresistancefilms.com/creative-activism-awards
▪️ Subtitles (CC) : English, Español, عربى, Français, Português, Italiano
🇱🇸 In Lesotho—a highland country surrounded by South Africa—an artist named Nthabiseng TeReo Mohanela takes discarded materials and transforms them into unique clothing and accessories. Teaching young people the benefits of recycling and re-creation, she calls her project “From Trash to Treasure.”
With TeReo’s work as a starting point, this short film showcases a broader spirit of re-imagination among artists in Lesotho, who use creativity to respond to entrenched social problems: Filmmakers show the need to end child marriage. Musicians write songs about climate change. Farmers collect seeds to protect endangered tree species. Designers use fashion to preserve traditional Basotho culture and challenge common perceptions of Africa. Profiling a variety of these innovators, "FROM TRASH TO TREASURE: turning negatives into positives" encourages us to take lessons from those who rethink, reuse, and reinvent in order to promote positive change.
🎥 Director/Producer: Iara Lee - Korean-Brazilian 🇰🇷 🇧🇷 activist filmmaker, world traveler and sports enthusiast 🏊🏻♀️🏃🏼♀️ 🚴🏻♀️ INSTAGRAM: @iara_lee
Editor/Cameramen - Dimo Petkov
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🏆 NIGERIA / ABUJA, Best Film, Africa Film For Impact Festival, 2020
UNITED STATES / NEW YORK, NY, Best Documentary Short, Indie Shorts Awards New York, 2020
PORTUGAL / Viseu, 1st prize - Social Responsibility, Best Short Documentary, & Best Documentary, ART&TUR International Tourism Film Festival, 2020
and others...
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✋ Learn how to❗TAKE ACTION ❗
❇️FOLLOW US ON INSTAGRAM - @culturesofresistance or check our website @ad
🔔 SUBSCRIBE to our channel for more!
*if you would like to screen the film, please e-mail us at info@culturesofresistancefilms.com*
▪️ Subtitles (CC) : English, Español, عربى, Français
🛎️ FULL MOVIE LINK - PINNED IN COMMENTS
🇱🇸 In Lesotho—a highland country surrounded by South Africa—an artist named Nthabiseng TeReo Mohanela takes discarded materials and transforms them into unique clothing and accessories. Teaching young people the benefits of recycling and re-creation, she calls her project “From Trash to Treasure.”
With TeReo’s work as a starting point, this short film showcases a broader spirit of reimagination among artists in Lesotho, who use creativity to respond to entrenched social problems: Filmmakers show the need to end child marriage. Musicians write songs about climate change. Farmers collect seeds to protect endangered tree species. Designers use fashion to preserve traditional Basotho culture and challenge common perceptions of Africa. Profiling a variety of these innovators, "FROM TRASH TO TREASURE: turning negatives into positives" encourages us to take lessons from those who rethink, reuse, and reinvent in order to promote positive change.
🎥 Director/Producer: Iara Lee - Korean-Brazilan 🇰🇷 🇧🇷 activist filmmaker, world traveler and amateur athlete 🏊🏻♀️🏃🏼♀️ 🚴🏻♀️ INSTAGRAM: @iara_lee
Editor/Cameramen - Dimo Petkov
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🏆NIGERIA / ABUJA, Best Film, Africa Film For Impact Festival, 2020
UNITED STATES / NEW YORK, NY, Best Documentary Short, Indie Shorts Awards New York, 2020
PORTUGAL / Viseu, 1st prize - Social Responsibility, Best Short Documentary, & Best Documentary, ART&TUR International Tourism Film Festival, 2020
and others...
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✋ If you're interested how to❗TAKE ACTION ❗
❇️FOLLOW US ON INSTAGRAM - @culturesofresistance or check our website @ad
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"Better Must Come” is Ishan Cyapital’s latest release from the album "AWOL: African Way Of Life,” scheduled for release on the 27th of June, on all online music platforms. The song and video feature his brother Teebz, from Malawian twins "Teebz & Jeelz”.
The song was recorded by J Mass at "Red Disk Music" in Blantyre, Chirimba, Malawi, produced by Conel Chycoon from Njuchi Music, and released under Di Elite Media Group
Film series director/ producer: iara lee
Camera/ editor: danilo arenas
Since then, Seif has started working on a photo fanzine to share his findings on the urgency of the situation.
Please join him in getting "Haratin: Born to serve" to print and shed light on the issue of traditional slavery and its consequences in Mauritania.
Cultures Of Resistance supports and encourages friends to do too! http://kck.st/2TcuiC0
youtube.com/watch?v=jUdGDb52iow
And the 1 hour raw footage here:
youtu.be/vwsMJmvS0AY
Stalking Chernobyl: Exploration After Apocalypse, a documentary from Cultures of Resistance Films, examines the underground culture of the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. Three decades after the world's most infamous nuclear disaster, animals and nature returned in the absence of human settlements. Meanwhile, illegal hiking adventurers known as "stalkers," extreme sports aficionados, artists, and tour companies have begun to explore anew the ghostly, radioactive, and post-apocalyptic landscape.
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directed by Iara lee
Edited by Dimo Petkov
production consultant: Oleg Shalashov
👉 Follow us on Instagram. - @iara_lee / @culturesofresistance
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#chernobylnucleardisaster
#chernobyldiaries
#chernobyldrone
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➡️ More than four decades after its people were promised freedom by departing Spanish rulers, the Western Sahara remains Africa’s last colony.
➡️ While a UN-brokered ceasefire put an end to armed hostilities in the territory in 1991, the Sahrawi people have continued to live under the Moroccan armed forces' oppressive occupation. What peace exists in the area is fragile at best.
➡️ Tens of thousands of Sahrawis have fled to neighboring Algeria, where over 125,000 refugees still live in camps that were intended to be temporary.
In spite of these difficulties, a new movement, with youth at its center, is rising to challenge human rights abuses and to demand the long-promised referendum on freedom. Today’s young generation is deploying creative nonviolent resistance for the cause of self-determination. In doing so, they are persevering against a torrent of conflicting forces. While risking torture and disappearance at the hands of Moroccan authorities, they are also pushing back against those who have lost patience with the international community and are ready to launch another guerrilla war.
🔶 This film from director iara lee examines these tensions and chronicles the everyday violence of life under occupation, giving voice to the aspirations of a desert people for whom colonialism has never ended.
👉Learn more about Cultures of Resistance Films - culturesofresistancefilms.com
👉Learn more about director iara lee - culturesofresistancefilms.com/about-the-director
🎥 Director/Producer: Iara Lee - Korean-Brazilian 🇰🇷 🇧🇷 activist filmmaker, world traveler and sports enthusiast 🏊🏻♀️🏃🏼♀️ 🚴🏻♀️ INSTAGRAM: @iara_lee
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🏆 Synthetic Pleasures has screened at film festivals around the world, including the Berlinale Forum and the 1996 Sundance International Film Festival.
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➔ In this charged context, captivating performers are using their talents to celebrate local culture and draw international attention to their islands’ plight, with the hope of spurring international solidarity and promoting collective action against the perils of a warming world.
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🎥 Director/Producer: Iara Lee - Korean-Brazilian 🇰🇷 🇧🇷 activist filmmaker, world traveler and sports-enthusiast 🏊🏻♀️🏃🏼♀️ 🚴🏻♀️ INSTAGRAM: @iara_lee
Editors: Dimo Petkov and Silvio Montanaro
Drone Cinematography: Andrew and Karl Bouro
Sound Design/Music/Mix: Kaloyan Dimitrov
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❇️FOLLOW US ON INSTAGRAM - @culturesofresistance or check our website @ad
🔔 SUBSCRIBE to our channel for more, as we bring voices of grassroots communities to you!
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FREE WEST PAPUA!
#freewestpapua
#freewestpapuacampaign
❇️FOLLOW US ON INSTAGRAM - @culturesofresistance or check our website @ad
🔔 SUBSCRIBE to our channel for more, as we bring voices of grassroots communities to you!
*if you would like to screen the film, please e-mail us at info@culturesofresistancefilms.com*
From women gaining economic independence by selling artisanal "dolo" beer, to youth marching in the streets against companies like Monsanto, to hip-hop musicians setting up their own farms and reviving the revolutionary spirit of Thomas Sankara through their music, BURKINABÈ BOUNTY shows the creative tactics people are using to take back control of their food, seeds, and future.
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🎥 Director/Producer - Iara Lee Korean-Brazilian 🇰🇷 🇧🇷 activist filmmaker, world traveler and sports enthusiast.🏊🏻♀️🏃🏼♀️ 🚴🏻♀️ INSTAGRAM: @iaralee
❇️FOLLOW US ON INSTAGRAM - @culturesofresistance or check our website @ad
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Watch the FULL MOVIE - link pinned in comments
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🏆 Travel Festival | Winner | Best Feature Film
Sheffield Adventure Film Festival | Winner | Best Spirit of Adventure Film Gold Award
Smaragdni Eco Film Festival | Winner | Best Feature Length Documentary
SiciliAmbiente Documentary Film Festival | Winner | Best Documentary Film
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🎥 Director/Producer - Iara Lee Korean-Brazilian 🇰🇷 🇧🇷 activist filmmaker, world traveler and amateur athlete.🏊🏻♀️🏃🏼♀️ 🚴🏻♀️ INSTAGRAM: @iaralee
Editor: Dimo Petkov
Production Coordinator: Oleg Shalashov
Cameramen: Anton Fedorko, Yuriy Vovchko, Volodymyr Kolbasa
Soundmen: Eduard Slobodianiuk, Vasyl Gudz
Music and Sound Mix: Kaloyan Dimitrov
Colorist: Gleb Katchuk
Titles Design: Ivan Ivanov
✊✊🏽✊🏿Today, the spirit of resistance and political change is mightier than ever and it permeates every aspect of the Burkinabè life. It is an inspiration, not only to Africa, but to the rest of the world.
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🎥 Director/Producer: Iara Lee - Korean-Brazilian 🇰🇷 🇧🇷 activist filmmaker, world traveler and sports enthusiast 🏊🏻♀️🏃🏼♀️ 🚴🏻♀️ INSTAGRAM: @iara_lee
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🔔 SUBSCRIBE to our channel for more
*if you would like to screen the film, please e-mail us at info@culturesofresistancefilms.com*
🎥 Director/Producer: Iara Lee - Korean-Brazilan 🇰🇷 🇧🇷 activist filmmaker, world traveler and sports enthusiast 🏊🏻♀️🏃🏼♀️ 🚴🏻♀️ INSTAGRAM: @iara_lee
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🏆 The film has been screened on film festivals around the world, including Berlinale Forum 1996 and Sundance International Film Festival 1996
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⮕ The film examines the kids who have turned the turntable into a musical instrument, disillusioned disco lovers who created acid house out of primitive synthesizers, Motor City mavericks who saw the drum machine as their escape route out of urban neglect, and a generation of British youth who transformed these blips and bleeps into dance floor anthems of their own alienation.
⮕Modulations provides a sense of history and context in which today's electronic music can be understood. It entertains the converted and remixes the mindset of electronica's nay-sayers.
Featuring a stunning collage of interviews, cutting-edge visuals, in-studio footage, and live performances, Modulations moves at a pace that matches the energy and innovation of the music.
👉 Follow us on Instagram. - @iara_lee / @CulturesofResistance
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Soundtrack:
Donna Summer | "I Feel Love"
Afrika Mambaattaa | "Planet Rock"
Juan Atkins/Model 500 | "No Ufo's Remix"
LFO |"Simon From Sydney
Derrick May | "Strings of Life"
Jesse Saunders | "Yeah"
Aprodite | "Amazon 2 - King of the Beats"
Panacea | "Stormbringer"
Goldie & Rob Playford | "The Shadow"
Ryoji Ikeda | "Luxus 1-3"
Coldcut | "Atomic Moog 2000"
To Rococo Rot | "Kritische Masse 1"
*if you would like to screen the film, please e-mail us at info@culturesofresistancefilms.com*
▪️ Despite being paid at rates far below those received by international expedition leaders, porters provide critical supplies to expedition base camps or take on higher-altitude tasks in support of ascending climbers. K2 porters do some of the most difficult and dangerous work and these efforts make them worthy of recognition as the true heroes of mountaineering.
🎥 Director/Producer: Iara Lee - Korean-Brazilian 🇰🇷 🇧🇷 activist filmmaker, world traveler and sports enthusiast 🏊🏻♀️🏃🏼♀️ 🚴🏻♀️ INSTAGRAM: @iara_lee
Cinematography/Editing: Jawad Sharif - award winning filmmaker from Pakistan
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🌎 K2 and the Invisible Footmen has screened in more then 100 countries, from refugee camps to red carpet galas.
🏆 The film won 28 awards at different film festivals around the globe, including:
Audience Award | Pakistan International Mountain Film Festival 2015
Best Film | Rio Mountain Film Festival 2015
Best Documentary | Salento International Film Festival, 2015
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▪️ Subtitles (CC) : English, Español, Polski
We have the movie available with different subtitles. *if you would like to screen the film, please e-mail us at info@culturesofresistancefilms.com*
From African countries' sounds of resistance, moving on to Brazil where gun-guitars transform the reality of slum kids and ending in Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon, where photography, music and film have given a voice to the people, Cultures of Resistance explores how art and engagement can be the ammunition in the war for peace and justice.
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🎥 Director/Producer: Iara Lee - Korean-Brazilian 🇰🇷 🇧🇷 activist filmmaker, cultural explorer and sports enthusiast 🏊🏻♀️🏃🏼♀️ 🚴🏻♀️ INSTAGRAM: @iara_lee
Cinematography/Editing: Jawad Sharif - award winning filmmaker from Pakistan
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🏆 Awards:
CAPE VERDE / PRAIA-SANTIAGO, Best Feature Documentary and Public Award, Cape Verde International Film Festival, 2012
IRAQ / BAGHDAD, Documentary Jury Prize, Baghdad International Film Festival, 2012
CANADA / VANCOUVER, Rising Star Award, Canada International Film Festival, 2012
USA / CA, Love & Encouragement Award, SURGE Film Festival, 2012
USA / LA, Documentary Silver, JamFest Indie Film Festival, 2011
CHINA / BEIJING, Best Long Documentary, Beijing International Movie Festival, 2011
ETHIOPIA / ADDIS ABABA, Audience Award, Addis International Film Festival, 2011
USA / CA, Best Documentary, Tiburon International Film Festival, 2011
INDIA / JAIPUR, Green Rose Award, Jaipur International Film Festival, 2011
BENIN / OUIDAH, Python Audience Prize, Jury Special Mentions, Ouidah International Film Festival, 2011
USA / NY, Best Documentary, 2nd Place, Buffalo International Film Festival, 2011
USA / NV, Golden Reel Award Winner, Nevada Film Festival, 2011
USA / GA, Best Documentary Feature, Atlanta Underground Film Festival, 2011
USA / UT, Best Documentary Feature, Red Rock Film Festival, 2011
UKRAINE / KIEV, Best Documentary on Human Rights, Steps International Film Festival, 2010
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It traces the evolution of electronic music as one of the most profound artistic developments of the twentieth century. By cutting back and forth between avant-garde composers, Kraftwerk's innovative synthesizer drones, Giorgio Moroder's glacial Euro-disco, Afrika Bambaataa's electro-funk, and Prodigy's current worldwide superstarstardom, Modulations celebrates, replicates, and illuminates the nomadic drift of the post-human techno sound.
The film examines the kids who have turned the turntable into a musical instrument, disillusioned disco lovers who created acid house out of primitive synthesizers, Motor City mavericks who saw the drum machine as their escape route out of urban neglect, and a generation of British youth who transformed these blips and bleeps into dance floor anthems of their own alienation.
Modulations provides a sense of history and context in which today's electronic music can be understood. It entertains the converted and remixes the mindset of electronica's nay-sayers.
Featuring a stunning collage of interviews, cutting-edge visuals, in-studio footage, and live performances, Modulations moves at a pace that matches the energy and innovation of the music.
➔ In this charged context, captivating performers are using their talents to celebrate local culture and draw international attention to their islands’ plight, with the hope of spurring international solidarity and promoting collective action against the perils of a warming world.
🛎️ FULL MOVIE LINK - PINNED IN COMMENTS
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🎥 Director/Producer: Iara Lee - Korean-Brazilian 🇰🇷 🇧🇷 activist filmmaker, world traveler and sports-enthusiast 🏊🏻♀️🏃🏼♀️ 🚴🏻♀️ INSTAGRAM: @iara_lee
Editors: Dimo Petkov and Silvio Montanaro
Drone Cinematography: Andrew and Karl Bouro
Sound Design/Music/Mix: Kaloyan Dimitrov
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❇️FOLLOW US ON INSTAGRAM - @culturesofresistance or check our website @ad
🔔 SUBSCRIBE to our channel for more, as we bring voices of grassroots communities to you!
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✊✊🏼✊🏿
FREE WEST PAPUA!
#freewestpapua
#freewestpapuacampaign
Can a small African country inspire us all to unite and resist? The people of BURKINA FASO have shown us that if we come together, we can change the world!! Discussing her latest film, BURKINABÈ RISING, director Iara Lee talks about how the people of Burkina Faso rose up to remove a despotic president who had been glued to power for 27 years. The story is an inspiration not only for the rest of Africa—but for people all over the world seeking to confront tyranny and corruption with art, unity, and creative resistance.
From women gaining economic independence by selling artisanal "dolo" beer, to youth marching in the streets against companies like Monsanto, to hip-hop musicians setting up their own farms and reviving the revolutionary spirit of Thomas Sankara through their music, BURKINABÈ BOUNTY shows the creative tactics people are using to take back control of their food, seeds, and future.
🛎️ FULL MOVIE LINK - PINNED IN COMMENTS
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🎥 Director/Producer - Iara Lee Korean-Brazilian 🇰🇷 🇧🇷 activist filmmaker, world traveler and sports enthusiast.🏊🏻♀️🏃🏼♀️ 🚴🏻♀️ INSTAGRAM: @iaralee
❇️FOLLOW US ON INSTAGRAM - @culturesofresistance or check our website @ad
🔔 SUBSCRIBE to our channel for more, as we bring voices of grassroots communities to you!
✊✊🏽✊🏿Today, the spirit of resistance and political change is mightier than ever and it permeates every aspect of the Burkinabè life. It is an inspiration, not only to Africa, but to the rest of the world.
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🎥 Director/Producer: Iara Lee - Korean-Brazilian 🇰🇷 🇧🇷 activist filmmaker, world traveler and sports enthusiast 🏊🏻♀️🏃🏼♀️ 🚴🏻♀️ INSTAGRAM: @iara_lee
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▪️ Despite being paid at rates far below those received by international expedition leaders, porters provide critical supplies to expedition base camps or take on higher-altitude tasks in support of ascending climbers. K2 porters do some of the most difficult and dangerous work and these efforts make them worthy of recognition as the true heroes of mountaineering.
🎥 Director/Producer: Iara Lee - Korean-Brazilian 🇰🇷 🇧🇷 activist filmmaker, world traveler and amateur athlete 🏊🏻♀️🏃🏼♀️ 🚴🏻♀️ INSTAGRAM: @iara_lee
Cinematography/Editing: Jawad Sharif - award winning filmmaker from Pakistan
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🌎 K2 and the Invisible Footmen has screened in more then 100 countries, from refugee camps to red carpet galas.
🏆 The film won 28 awards at different film festivals around the globe, including:
Audience Award | Pakistan International Mountain Film Festival 2015
Best Film | Rio Mountain Film Festival 2015
Best Documentary | Salento International Film Festival, 2015
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▪️ Subtitles (CC) : English, Español, Polski
We have the movie available with different subtitles. Feel free to get in touch at info@culturesofresistance.org
➡️ A recent viewer described the film like this: "When listening to Matsuo Basho's Haiku, I feel as though someone is lightly brushing my long hair. However, while hearing Allen Ginsberg's Haiku, it's as though someone is cutting all my hair off."
The film was screened on Sundance Film Festival 1996.
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Cuatro décadas después de que los salientes dirigentes españoles prometieran a su pueblo la libertad, el Sahara Occidental sigue siendo la última colonia de África. Aunque un alto del fuego mediado por la ONU puso fin a las hostilidades armadas en el territorio en 1991, el pueblo saharaui ha continuado viviendo bajo la ocupación opresiva de las fuerzas armadas marroquíes; y la paz vigente en la zona es, en el mejor de los casos, frágil. Decenas de miles de saharauis han huido a la vecina Argelia, donde más de 125.000 refugiados siguen viviendo en campamentos que tenían un propósito temporal. A pesar de estas dificultades, un nuevo movimiento, con los jóvenes como eje central, se está levantando para desafiar los abusos de derechos humanos y para exigir el otrora prometido referéndum sobre la libertad. La actual generación de jóvenes activistas está desplegando una resistencia creativa y no violenta en favor de la causa de la autodeterminación. Mediante esta iniciativa, han perseverado en contra de un torrente de fuerzas en conflicto. Además de arriesgarse a la tortura y a la desaparición a manos de las autoridades marroquíes, también están haciendo retroceder a aquellos que han perdido la paciencia con la comunidad internacional y están listos para iniciar otra guerra de guerrillas.
La nueva película de la directora Iara Lee examinará estas tensiones, ya que narra la violencia cotidiana de la vida bajo la ocupación, dando voz a las aspiraciones de un pueblo del desierto para los que el colonialismo aún no ha terminado.
**The translation of the subtitles for this trailer is courtesy of Fernando Fernández and the team at the Festival de Cine Solidario de Guadalajara in Spain**
▪️ Despite being paid at rates far below those received by international expedition leaders, porters provide critical supplies to expedition base camps or take on higher-altitude tasks in support of ascending climbers. K2 porters do some of the most difficult and dangerous work and these efforts make them worthy of recognition as the true heroes of mountaineering.
🎥 Director/Producer: Iara Lee - Korean-Brazilian 🇰🇷 🇧🇷 activist filmmaker, world traveler and amateur athlete 🏊🏻♀️🏃🏼♀️ 🚴🏻♀️ INSTAGRAM: @iara_lee
Cinematography/Editing: Jawad Sharif - award winning filmmaker from Pakistan
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🌎 K2 and the Invisible Footmen has screened in more then 100 countries, from refugee camps to red carpet galas.
🏆 The film won 28 awards at different film festivals around the globe, including:
Audience Award | Pakistan International Mountain Film Festival 2015
Best Film | Rio Mountain Film Festival 2015
Best Documentary | Salento International Film Festival, 2015
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▪️ Subtitles (CC) : English, Español, Polski
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➔ He is an active member of the Indigenous Peoples’ Human Rights Defenders’ Network, the Bangladesh Indigenous Peoples Forum, and the Kapaeeng Foundation, a human rights organization for indigenous peoples in Bangladesh. He represented his indigenous community at the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues and at the Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples conference.
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Directed/Produced by Iara Lee
Edited/Cinematography by Jawad Sharif
Located on the border between Pakistan and China, K2 is the second-highest mountain on Earth. For many climbers, it is an even greater prize than Everest, with limited routes, a steeper ascent, and a harder push to its summit. Nicknamed the 'Savage Mountain,' K2's peak juts unprotected into the atmosphere, regularly exposing climbers and porters to life-threatening weather conditions.
Despite being paid at rates far below those received by international expedition leaders, such porters – whether they provide critical supplies to expedition base camps or take on higher-altitude tasks in support of ascending climbers – do some of the most difficult and dangerous work and these efforts make them worthy of recognition as the true heroes of mountaineering.
In K2 AND THE INVISIBLE FOOTMEN, filmmaker Iara Lee and team chronicle the lives of both Pakistani porters and Nepalese sherpas. The film also follows the first official all-Pakistani climbing team, made up of former porters, who successfully summited in 2014, in celebration of K2 60th anniversary. Amid breathtaking scenery, the film depicts the everyday sacrifices of porters and the courage of those indigenous climbers who choose to return to scale K2 in spite of past tragedies. In their striving to perfect their craft, these mountaineers provide a fresh look into the cultures and national traditions of Pakistan, a country typically portrayed in the foreign media as merely a land of conflict and sectarian strife.
The Cultures of Resistance Network supported fifty scholarships in 2014 and another fifty in 2015.
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❓ More than four decades after its people were promised freedom by departing Spanish rulers, the Western Sahara remains Africa’s last colony.
➡️ While a UN-brokered ceasefire put an end to armed hostilities in the territory in 1991, the Sahrawi people have continued to live under the Moroccan armed forces' oppressive occupation. What peace exists in the area is fragile at best.
➡️ Tens of thousands of Sahrawis have fled to neighboring Algeria, where over 125,000 refugees still live in camps that were intended to be temporary.
🔶 In spite of these difficulties, a new movement, with youth at its center, is rising to challenge human rights abuses and to demand the long-promised referendum on freedom. Today’s young generation is deploying creative nonviolent resistance for the cause of self-determination. In doing so, they are persevering against a torrent of conflicting forces. While risking torture and disappearance at the hands of Moroccan authorities, they are also pushing back against those who have lost patience with the international community and are ready to launch another guerrilla war.
This film, from director iara lee, examines these tensions and chronicles the everyday violence of life under occupation, giving voice to the aspirations of a desert people for whom colonialism has never ended.
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🌎 Since 2015, 'LIFE IS WAITING: Referendum and Resistance in Western Sahara' has been screened in almost 100 countries, from refugee camps to red carpet galas.
🏆 The film has won 10 awards at different film festivals around the globe.
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🎥 Director, Producer: Iara Lee (IG @iara_lee)
Co-Producer: Salah Abdelahe
Director of Photography: Jose Yeray Martin
2nd Camera: Eduardo Souto Fraguas
Editor: Martin Eller
Sound: Jordi Oriola Folch
Music: Mariem Hassan