Synopsis
Told through the eyes of a 13-year-old Siberian girl and the American scout who discovered her, Girl Model follows a complex global supply chain of young girls sent abroad to seek their fortunes in the unregulated and often murky world of the modeling industry. Despite a 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 the Siberian countryside looking for fresh faces to send to the Japanese market, and one of her discoveries, Nadya, a 13-year-old plucked from her rustic home in Russia and dropped into the center of bustling Tokyo with promises of a profitable career. After Ashley's initial discovery of Nadya, they rarely meet again, but their stories are inextricably bound. As Nadya's optimism about rescuing her family from financial hardship grows, her dreams contrast against Ashley’s more jaded outlook about the industry’s corrosive influence.
Metrics
Opening Weekend: | $6,864 (32.4% of total gross) |
Legs: | 3.08 (domestic box office/biggest weekend) |
Domestic Share: | 95.0% (domestic box office/worldwide) |
Theater counts: | 1 opening theaters/5 max. theaters, 2.6 weeks average run per theater |
Infl. Adj. Dom. BO | $28,642 |
Latest Ranking on Cumulative Box Office Lists
Record | Rank | Amount |
---|---|---|
All Time Domestic Box Office (Rank 15,401-15,500) | 15,442 | $21,154 |
All Time International Box Office (Rank 28,501-28,600) | 28,573 | $1,109 |
All Time Worldwide Box Office (Rank 30,001-30,100) | 30,065 | $22,263 |
All Time Domestic Highest Grossing Limited Release Movies (Rank 6,901-7,000) | 6,906 | $21,154 |
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Movie Details
Domestic Releases: | September 5th, 2012 (Limited) |
International Releases: | July 12th, 2012 (Wide) (Netherlands) |
Video Release: | February 12th, 2013 by First Run Home |
MPAA Rating: | Not Rated |
Running Time: | 77 minutes |
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Keywords: | Fashion, Models, Big Break, Intertitle, Voiceover/Narration, Epilogue |
Source: | Based on Real Life Events |
Genre: | Documentary |
Production Method: | Live Action |
Creative Type: | Factual |
Production/Financing Companies: | Carnivalesque Films, Dogwood Films, POV |
Production Countries: | United States |
Languages: | English, Japanese, Russian |