BLACK BOX DIARIES
Status Premiere
102 minutes | 2024 | Japan, United States & United Kingdom | Documentary | 
Japanese
Synopsis
Sinopsis
BLACK BOX DIARIES follows director and journalist Shiori Ito’s courageous investigation of her own 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and emotional first-person video, Shiori’s quest becomes a landmark case in Japan, exposing the country’s desperately outdated judicial and societal systems.
Schedule
Jadwal
XXI Studio 3 | Dec 6, 2024 | 15:45 WIB
Director's Biography
Biografi Sutradara
Shiori Itō
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 many languages. In 2020 she was listed as one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time magazine. BLACK BOX DIARIES is her feature documentary debut.
Cast & Crew
Kru & Pemain
Production Company Dogwoof
Producer Eric Nyari, Hanna Aqvilin & Shiori Itō
Director Shiori Itō
Cinematographer Hanna Aqvillin, Yuta Okamura, Shiori Itō, Keke Shiratama & Yuichiro Otsuka
Editor Ema Ryan Yamazaki
Main Cast Shiori Itō
Notable Achievement
- Best International Documentary Film – Zurich Film Festival, Germany. 2024
- Human:Rights Award – CPH:DOX, Denmark. 2024
- Special Jury Award – San Francisco International Film Festival, USA. 2024
- Sundance Film Festival, USA. 2024
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