General Information

Author/Creator

Redmon, David, director.

Language

English, Russian, Japanese.

Subtitles

Hungarian

Published

United States : David Redmon, Asley Sabin, Marcy Garriott, Robert Garriott, 2011.

Physical Description

DVD-ROM (88 min.)

Digital ver. identifier

HU_OSA_00004357

Contributors

Contributor

Sabin, Asley, (director)

Contents/Summary

Summary

Despite the 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 Siberia 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. Yet the ideal way of fleeing poverty turns out to be harder than she had expected. Nadya's model scout Ashley knows all about it. Resigned to the situation, she observes how the Japanese are obsessed with youth and beauty. She looks back on her career and sees how not every girl in a bikini is really earning her money from photo shoots. The filmmakers followed the two women, who speak frankly about their lives and represent two extremes of the tough world of modeling; while Nadya's determination to make it as a model intensifies, so does Ashley's ambivalent and pessimistic view of the modeling world.

Bibliographic Information

Note

Duration: 01:28:00

Library Special Collection

Verzio Film Festival Submission

Holdings

Item Type	Current Location	Call Number	Status	Shelving Location	Public Note
DVD-ROM	OSA Film Library	FL Record 2750	Available	-	-
Digital film	OSA Film Library	FL Record 2750 (HU_OSA_00004357.mp4)	Available		Access Copy, MP4 format