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The Everywhere Hotel

The Everywhere Hotel is a magical hotel that is located everywhere – like a teleporting phenomenon. For example, the lobby can be in one city, but the garden is in a whole other place. The hotel has a magical system of doors that can lead its visitors anywhere. However, to stay here, the visitor have to prove that they can also be an "explorer" that help expanding the hotel by finding new locations.

  • Milo Dao
    Director
  • Milo Dao
    Writer
  • Anh Nguyen
    Producer
  • Lewis Nguyen
    Key Cast
    "Lobby Boy"
  • Quế-Chi Dương
    Key Cast
    "Anna"
  • Chau Dang
    Key Cast
    "Receptionist"
  • Pankeu
    Key Cast
    "Hotel's Manager"
  • Trung Imai
    Director of Photography
  • Shaheen Klepper-Bayle
    Colorist
  • Han Nguyen
    VFX
  • Milo Dao
    Editor
  • Ngọc Ánh
    Assistant Camera
  • Ngân Trang
    Gaffer
  • Linh Chu
    Sound Recordist
  • Claire Anderson
    Voice Over
  • Olivia Jump
    Voice Over
  • Zachery Meier
    Voice Over
  • Project Type:
    Short, Student
  • Runtime:
    18 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    October 4, 2023
  • Production Budget:
    500 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    Viet Nam
  • Country of Filming:
    Viet Nam
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    Yes
  • Student Project:
    Yes - Denison University
Director Biography - Milo Dao

Milo is an upcoming grad from Denison University, where she holds a bachelor degree in Communication. During her undergrad years, Milo spent largely of her time studying and experimenting many forms of both sound and visual art making, which made her a multidisciplinary storyteller with specialization in Filmmaking and Art Direction.

Milo’s work always aims to challenge different limits of fictional storytelling, where the line between cultures, times, and spaces is gently blurred through the art of world building. Her inspirations on the other hand, actually comes from the aspect of everyday life, in which the simple feeling of a morning breeze or the first sip of strawberry peach tea is integrated from using symbolic imagery.

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Director Statement

The Everywhere Hotel is a metaphorical story about identity. In the short film, the character Anna comes out of nowhere, and at the end still nobody knows anything about her past or who she is — but that is what matters. A person's identity or personal story should not always be determined by their past, but what they are doing at the present, and who they want to be in the future.
The Everywhere Hotel, on the other hand, can be seen under the theme of immigration. The Hotel in this case is the representation of the United States where diversity and freedom is advertised as the country’s brand, but doesn’t truly exist as how we thought it to be. To enter this world, we are told to prove that we are special, but actually our uniqueness still has to fit into an unspoken mold. The place that is promoted to be diverse, special, and globally impactful turned out to be heavily controlled by the western ideology.