Girl Model

Name: Girl Model
Director: Ashley Sabin,David Redmon
Released: 2011

Ashley Sabin David Redmon 2011

Despite a lack of obvious similarities between Siberia and Tokyo, a thriving model industry connects these distant regions. GIRL MODEL follows two protagonists involved in this industry: Ashley, a deeply ambivalent model scout who scours the Siberian countryside looking for fresh faces to send to the Japanese market, and one of her discoveries, Nadya, a thirteen year-old plucked from the Siberian countryside and dropped into the center of Tokyo with promises of a profitable career. After Ashley’s initial discovery of Nadya, the two rarely meet again, but their stories are inextricably bound.

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Running Time:

78 min.

Spoken Languages:

English, Japanese, Russian

Subtitles:

English

Directors:

Ashley Sabin David Redmon

Producers:

Marcy Garriott, Robert Garriott

Cinematographers:

David Redmon, Ashley Sabin

Editors:

David Redmon, Ashley Sabin

Production Companies:

POV, CBC

Investigative Journalism

Press

Philadelphia Daily News

A disturbing documentary about a side of the modeling business that's far from super.

Ellen Gray
Georgia Straight

The film will, at the very least, make you wonder about who the "girl model" really is the next time you open a fashion magazine or see a billboard.

Michelle da Silva
Boston Globe

A powerful documentary that, with a wider scope and a bit more shaping, could have been even more powerful, perhaps unbearably so. What's there is strong enough.

Ty Burr
Boston Phoenix

David Redmon and Ashley Sabin's somber, sometimes poetic, Fred Wiseman-like documentary ...

Peter Keough

Festival Participation

Toronto IFF, Canada - 2011
Rome Film Festival, Italy - 2011
Abu Dhabi Film Festival - 2011
CPH: DOX, Denmark - 2011
IDFA, Netherlands - 2011

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