BLACK BOX DIARIES
Black Box Diaries follows director and journalist Shiori Ito’s courageous investigation of her sexual assault in an improbable attempt to prosecute her high-profile offender. Unfolding like a thriller and combining secret investigative recordings, vérité shooting, and emotional first-person video, Shiori’s quest becomes a landmark case in Japan, exposing the country’s desperately outdated judicial and societal systems.
Shiori Ito is a journalist, writer, and documentary filmmaker. Her primary focus is gender-based human rights issues. She co-founded Hanashi Films, a Tokyo and London-based production company that has collaborated with NHK, BBC, and Al Jazeera. In 2017, Shiori wrote the book “Black Box,” based on her own experience of rape. The book reveals the sexism in Japan’s society and institutions and won the Free Press Association of Japan Award for Best Journalism in 2018. It has been translated into several languages. In 2020, Time magazine listed her as one of the 100 most influential people in the world. Black Box Diaries is her featured documentary debut.
San Francisco International Film Festival – Special Jury Award for Best Documentary Feature
Seattle International Film Festival – Lena Sharpe Award for Persistence of Vision
CPH:DOX – Human Rights Award
Sarajevo Film Festival – Audience Award
It’s all true Festival – Honorable Mention, Best International Feature Length Film Award
BLACK BOX DIARIES (doc.)
Director: Shiori Ito
Country: Japan, United States, United Kingdom
Year: 2024.
Runtime: 102’
Language: Japanese
Production: A Hanashi Films, Cineric Creative & Star Sands Production, Spark Features
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