Girl Model Page #2

Synopsis: A documentary on the modeling industry's 'supply chain' between Siberia, Japan, and the U.S., told through the experiences of the scouts, agencies, and a 13-year-old model.
Production: First Run Features
  2 wins & 1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
6.5
Metacritic:
68
Rotten Tomatoes:
94%
NOT RATED
Year:
2011
78 min
£21,154
Website
80 Views


Loves models.

By foot, we go.

Three, two, action.

Hello, my name is Nadya

and I'm 15 years old.

Many, many questions.

But don't answer. I don't hear answer.

Why?

Discuss.

I think that the main issue for me

is that there is a lot of 13,

14, 15 years old girls.

I mean, there is, too, in Europe,

and all of them say that no,

in Europe and America they don't

use any girl under 16 any more,

but the girls, I see them at

the casting, I talk to them.

But who is to blame?

We can't blame the girls,

because they're just being sent.

We can't blame the families,

because maybe they are in need.

Can we blame the agency that took them on,

because a client will take them?

Can we blame the clients

that will pretend or won't know,

actually, how old those girls are?

There's no-one to blame,

but the whole thing is so wrong.

They all play blind, really,

and if they used 13 or

14-year-old girls, it means, did you not

want any girls that are

the shape of a woman, really.

Seven for Russia, so

you start from area code.

I don't know, it's your number.

You got area code?

Area. Do you have a dictionary?

Dictionary.

Dictionary. Do you have a book?

No. Russian-English book, you have.

Ah.

Bring, bring. Yes.

This, Russian. Ah, English.

So,

seven is Russia, and you put...

Erm, yes.

Press.

No.

Write down your number.

Ah, it's not in service.

We cannot call from this number.

This phone doesn't work.

Here is me, getting my hair done in Japan.

I remember the birth, being a model,

and I hated it so much.

I've never been so down.

I remember days where I would

just literally stay in my apartment

and stay in my bed all day.

I just couldn't even get out of bed.

I didn't know what to do with

myself. I felt so depressed.

All I would think about is,

"OK, what am I going to

really do with my life?

"Why am I doing this?"

"When can I go home?"

I realised that I didn't

actually have to have

a death of modelling,

because I started scouting,

and I could actually now be

in control, and that was fun,

because I could decide

when I want to travel,

and I could pick the models,

and I was still a model,

so all my friends were models,

a lot of them, so I just started

sending them to Japan, so right away,

I had an instantaneous business.

The best thing I did was

buy my little house.

And then I made more money

when I sold it, which I'm doing now,

so I'm actually reaping the benefits

of my modelling career right now.

So this is my favourite little spot.

I had these boxes made

for these little mini prints.

Stockings.

Hands, gestures.

See, I'm trying to hide

my camera under the table...

...so that they don't know

that I'm photographing.

Sometimes I wouldn't

photograph the girl's face,

I would just photograph

her feet or her hands.

Sometimes I would try and

find the legs, match the legs,

which legs went with which body.

Hey, does that work? That works.

Doesn't it?

Oh, no. Doesn't work.

Wait, almost works.

This is the same. This is the

same bathing suit, though, look.

That fits that. If I had it

on a tripod, then I could.

A lot of times, you do shoots,

and you never see the pictures in the end.

The pictures can be

sold to a magazine afterwards,

and so you won't make any money,

because agencies don't want you

to know what's going on, anyway.

It's better for them, because if you

don't really know what's going on,

how much you're getting paid,

what are your expenses,

they can get more money out of you.

You have to be really on top of everything,

and at 13 years old, she

won't be on top of everything,

she'll be like, "Oh, my God, I'm going

to Japan. I have all those jobs booked,

"I'm going to make

that much money at least".

But they don't know that

they're not getting those jobs.

They'll just take advantage of her.

Taxi.

S'il vous plait.

Concorde? Concorde.

Taxi!

I don't know if short-term

would be defined by, like,

12 years of travelling.

It's more than short-term.

It's an addiction.

It really is an addiction.

I stick with what I know, because

I'm afraid to try new things.

Once you've travelled and seen so much,

you sort of want that stimulus again,

because there's a certain

stimulus with new places.

Sorry, Tigran. I was just

wanting to make sure I had it right.

You had it right.

I mean, this is what I know the most.

I started doing this when I was 17.

It's just, like, something I know,

but it's not something

that I necessarily...

I need to be more business, like you.

Your business and this business.

So many people aren't

business in this business, so...

I mean, if you catch the girl at 12,

when these girls are in these

very delicate stages of their lives,

then you have more power, or

more influence to guide and direct.

It's not really the age,

it's how mature they are,

because at the age of 13,

she has something that

most people rarely have,

and that's called dignity.

A 13-year-old will never go with

a rich man, you know, for money,

Because she'll understand that

she's much happier with the 100,000

that she earned, or with the 50,000

that she earned, than with the

3 million that she gets from this

rich man, doing nothing other than

spreading her legs in front of him.

A 12-year-old or 13-year-old

would never do it.

OK?

They're difficult girls.

So, to have a good effect of education,

we sometimes take these girls

to the morgue, and we show them

these young girls or boys

who did drugs and passed away.

That has an everlasting effect,

and if the model is still too hard-headed,

we have the autopsy done in front of them.

Believe me, that affects them so strongly.

You do that?

Yeah.

So you call up the morgue in St Petersburg?

That's right.

And you find out?

That's right.

You know, the worst part

is when they realise

they could be in their place,

and that has a very, very

strong effect on them.

Believe me, seeing a dead,

young girl in front of you

has a really strong effect.

With an open body, you know.

I think I was a very

bad person in my past life.

So I'm back to pay my debt.

I think I was a military person.

I know that, and I killed a lot of people.

So I think I'm back to now help people.

So...

Maybe...

It's my contract.

Hello?

Alyo?

Alyo?

I've been scouting with Tigran,

and this is Noah Models' most recent find.

But they have a real monopoly

on the Russian market

because they have agencies stretching

all the way across Russia,

and they have 20 little offices,

so they're scouting in that area,

and they're really getting

first option on all the girls,

because there's little agencies.

This is the bathroom?

Oh, my gosh!

Wow.

That is a pretty bad one.

That's pretty bad!

What do we have out here?

A garden?

Yeah, we know.

So, yes, it's not... Yeah.

It's not the best model's apartment.

But I guess it's OK.

Yeah.

OK.

You're going to, I mean,

you're pretty busy with the castings,

and then, this weekend,

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Ike Barinholtz

Isaac "Ike" Barinholtz (born February 18, 1977) is an American comedian, actor and screenwriter. He was a cast member on MADtv from 2002 to 2007, Eastbound & Down (2012), and had a regular role on The Mindy Project. In his film work, he is best known for his acting roles in Neighbors (2014) and its sequel, Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising (2016), Sisters (2015), Suicide Squad (2016) and Blockers (2018), as well for as co-writing the screenplay for the 2016 comedy film Central Intelligence. more…

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