By Tom Clift
The maker of the documentary Girl Model has denied making sexual advances towards his film’s then 13-year-old subject, the gravest of a series of accusations levelled against him and his co-director in the wake of the movie’s completion.
“I’ve done nothing wrong,” David Redmon tells Filmink on the line from New York.
The movie, which Redmon along with his wife and co-director Ashley Sabin, began work on in 2007, charts the journey of Nadya Vall, a teenager from rural Siberia who gets recruited by Russian modelling agency, NOAH Models, and is sent to work in Japan. What follows is a grim portrait of an industry in which young girls are exploited by unscrupulous adults, aren’t provided with consistent work, and, in Vall’s case, rack up thousands of dollars in debt which they are unable to pay off.
But in a disturbing twist on an already troubling tale, Vall has spoken out against the film, most recently in the form of a YouTube video in which the now 17-year-old model, still under contract with NOAH, asserts that the film “does not reflect the truth or the reality in any manner”, and accuses its male co-director of being “a knifing manipulator and a sexual predator.”
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