Does each gesture really make a difference? Can music and dance be weapons of peace? Director Iara Lee embarked on a two-year, five-continent trek to find out. From MALI and its Tuareg sounds of resistance to wartorn SRI LANKA where brutal conflict between the state and the Tamil Tigers resulted in massive destruction and loss of civilian life, 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.
  
CULTURES OF RESISTANCE is a feature-length documentary that highlights the efforts for peace by artists and activists from around the world and demonstrates how our choices as consumers and human beings have a profound effect on the major conflicts taking place around the world today. 
 
directed by iara lee * produced by george gund
editor: jeffrey marcello * camera: david ross smith

90 minutes, color, English subtitles, HDCam,
2010 Caipirinha Productions

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