Despite a lack of obvious similarities between Siberia and Tokyo, a thriving model industry connects these distant regions. GIRL MODEL follows Ashley, a deeply ambivalent model scout and Nadya her thirteen year-old protégé, who is 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.
Stuck in an alien world miles away from home Nadya goes through a punishing grind of casting calls and rejections. She and innocent girls like her are left to fend for themselves, barely able to communicate and bound by contracts that forbid them to gain weight or inches and allows the agencies to renege on the immigration requirement of guaranteed work, leaving them worse off than they started.
| Directed by | David Redmon, Ashley Sabin |
| Company | KinoSmithKinoSmithKinoSmith |
