Picture Me: A Model’s Diary
She [Ziff] and her boyfriend, filmmaker Ole Schell, began shooting behind the scenes at Ziff’s shows. For five years, they recorded parties, castings, life on the road, and backstage finagling as she became the face of campaigns for Calvin Klein, Dolce & Gabbana, The Gap... What emerged is an impressively even-handed portrait of her exhilarating rise – and of the darker side of the fashion world’s rabid appetite for beautiful young women.
– World Cinema Showcase 2010
They started giving the camera to fellow models, putting them on the other side of the lens and giving them a chance to speak. Gradually the couple became less like innocent home-movie makers and more like undercover reporters. [...] Shooting on a shoestring budget, editing in Schell's apartment, they end up with one of the best films about the world of modelling and an honest portrayal of an industry built on artifice. The final film [...] is at times a rare and unsettling look at what must be one of the few unregulated industries in the western world.
– Louise France, The Observer
Duration: 80 min
Dialogue: English
Age limit: K11
