Girl Model

There’s a new film out called Girl Model that explores the Tokyo – Euro modelling exchange. We just saw it at a press screening in New York and it is a very, very well-made documentary about a topic long overdue for exposure.

It follows young Siberian model Nadya and the American scout Ashley who finds her and sends her to Tokyo. Along the way we meet the Russian in charge of getting her there and her ambigiously-motivated Japanese agency.

I felt a compulsion to post about it here seeing as it shares some similar characters and locations to Beaufort’s fictional film about models in Tokyo – Tiger - and even features our lead actress, Rachel Blais, speaking candidly and intelligently about the sinister side of modelling in Japan.

It will play at the Toronto International Film Festival in September.

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Congratulations David Redmon and A. Sabin for crafting such an intelligent, well-balanced piece.