Dogwoof Boards Sundance Competition Title ‘Black Box Diaries,’ by Award-Winning Journalist Shiori Ito, for World Sales (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comLeo Barraclough International Features Editor London-based international documentary sales and production outfit Dogwoof has boarded world sales for Shiori Ito’s feature documentary, “Black Box Diaries,” which will receive its world premiere in the World Cinema Documentary Competition at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival.
The film follows director and journalist 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and emotional first-person video, her quest becomes a landmark case in Japan, exposing the country’s desperately outdated judicial and societal systems.
A journalist, writer and filmmaker, Ito wrote the book “Black Box” in 2017 based on her experience, and went on to win the Free Press Association of Japan Award for Best Journalism in 2018. “Black Box” is now available in seven languages, including English.
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