SAT FEB 8, 2025 12:00 PM

BLACK BOX DIARIES / "I Am Ready, Warden"

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Los Feliz 3 | Q&As with filmmakers Shiori Ito and Smriti Mundhra, respectively

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ABOUT THE FILMS:

BLACK BOX DIARIES, 2024, Dir. Shiori Ito, 103 Min, MTV Documentary Films, Japan/USA/UK

In Japanese with English subtitles.

BLACK BOX DIARIES follows director 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and emotional first-person video, her quest becomes a landmark case in Japan, exposing the country’s desperately outdated judicial and societal systems. BLACK BOX DIARIES has been nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.

FORMAT: DCP

“I Am Ready, Warden,” 2024, Dir. Smriti Mundhra, 37 Min, MTV Documentary Films, USA

Directed by Oscar-nominated filmmaker Smriti Mundhra for MTV Documentary Films. In the days leading up to his execution, Texas death row prisoner John Henry Ramirez seeks redemption from his victim’s son.

FORMAT: DCP