‘Black Box Diaries’ Director Shiori Ito Says She Feels ‘Powerful’ Now That Doc About Her Own Sexual Assault Is Out | Video

Documentarian and journalist Shiori Ito is finding her own power onscreen, turning her story of sexual assault into her powerful directorial debut, “Black Box Diaries,” premiering at Sundance. The film follows Ito’s 2015 assault and what happened once she went public with it two years later.

“When I published my book, that was 2017, it was the exact time the #MeToo movement happened,” Ito said at TheWrap’s Sundance Portrait and Interview Studio presented by NFP.

But while #MeToo dominated America, it wasn’t really a movement in Japan.

“I always felt very isolated,” she said. “When I published my book, it was more [from] the point-of-view of a journalist.”