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Girl Model

Release Date 10 Feb 2012 10 Jul 2012

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Certificate: TBC

Genre: Documentary | Suspense | Thriller

Girl Model follows a complex supply chain between Siberia, Japan, and the U.S. within the modelling industry. The story is told through the eyes of a scout and a 13 year-old model. 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. As Nadya’s optimism about rescuing her family from their financial difficulties grows, her dreams contrast against Ashley’s more jaded outlook about the industry’s corrosive influence.

Cast:
Rachel Blais | Ashley Arbaugh

Writers:
Ashley Sabin | David Redmon

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Directors:
Ashley Sabin | David Redmon

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    The banal yet luminous dramas of hope and disappointment play out, proving - again - that life is the same everywhere in the world, once you dig below the perma-crust of nationalistic self-assertion and position-striking.