London-based worldwide documentary gross sales and manufacturing outfit Dogwoof has secured additional worldwide gross sales for Shiori Ito’s “Black Field Diaries,” which was Oscar-shortlisted final week for documentary function.

The movie premiered in competitors at this 12 months’s Sundance Movie Pageant and has since been an viewers and demanding favourite at worldwide festivals worldwide, choosing up a number of awards on its journey.

Dogwoof has secured additional gross sales in territories together with BBC Storyville (U.Ok.), ZDF/Arte (Germany and France), Sky Digi Ent. (Taiwan), Star Alliance (China), Anticipate (Singapore and Thailand), Falcon Photos (Indonesia), Discovery (former Yugoslavia), and MBC (Center East and North Africa).

Beforehand introduced gross sales embrace Artwork Home Movies (France), Trigon (Switzerland), Periscoop (Benelux), NonStop (Scandinavia and Baltics), Anticipate Photos (Singapore), Filmin (Spain), Sherry Media (Canada) and EDKO (Hong Kong).

MTV Documentary Movies, which acquired U.S. distribution rights from Dogwoof, will debut the movie on Paramount+ with Showtime on Jan. 7, forward of Oscar nomination voting opening on Jan. 8. Dogwoof launched the movie theatrically within the U.Ok. and Eire in October.

“Black Field Diaries” follows director Ito’s brave investigation of her personal sexual assault in an inconceivable try to prosecute her high-profile offender. Unfolding like a thriller and mixing secret investigative recordings, vérité taking pictures and emotional first-person video, her quest turns into a landmark case in Japan, exposing the nation’s desperately outdated judicial and societal techniques.

A journalist, author and filmmaker with a concentrate on gender-based human rights points, Ito wrote the bestselling ebook “Black Field” primarily based on her expertise. The ebook went on to win the Free Press Affiliation of Japan Award for Finest Journalism in 2018 and is now out there in 11 languages, together with English. For her contribution to Japan’s #MeToo motion, Ito was listed as one of many 100 most influential folks on this planet by Time journal in 2020.

“Black Field Diaries” is directed by Ito and produced by Eric Nyari, Hanna Aqvilin and Ito. The movie is edited by Ema Ryan Yamazaki (2025 Oscar-shortlisted nominee for documentary brief). Cinematography is by Hanna Aqvillin, Yuta Okamura, Ito, Keke Shiratama, and Yuichiro Otsuka. Unique rating is by Mark Degli Antoni. Government producers are Robina Riccitiello, Josh Peters and Mitsunobu Kawamura. The movie is a world co-production by Hanashi Movies, Cineric Inventive and Star Sands.