Girl Model

Wednesday, September 5 - Thursday, September 20, 2012

To feed fashion’s insatiable need for new faces, every year thousands of girls are lured into modeling with promises of wealth and fame. A portrait of two young women caught up in the system—an American ex-model turned deeply ambivalent scout and a naïve Siberian teen discovered in a casting call—this incisive, unsettling documentary reveals the harsh realities at the heart of selling fantasy.

• Country USA
• Language In English, Russian and Japanese with English subtitles
• Rating NR
• Running Time 77 minutes
• Director David Redmon & Ashley Sabin

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