The Motel
Out of Place in the Middle of Nowhere.
75 mins
Thirteen-year-old Ernest Chin lives and works at a sleazy hourly-rate motel on a strip of desolate suburban bi-way. Misunderstood by his family and blindly careening into puberty, Ernest befriends Sam Kim, a self-destructive yet charismatic Korean man who has checked in. Sam teaches the fatherless boy all the rites of manhood.
Jeffrey Chyau
Ernest
Alexis Chang
Katie
Stephen Chen
Gung Gung
Jackson Budinger
Jess
Jake Holbrook
Toby
Ian Boyd
Jimmy
Glen Brackenridge
Cheap Ass Naked Man
Cheryl Campbell
Naked Woman
Michael Kang
Writer
Michael Kang
Director
Ed Lin
Novel
Shane Valentino
Art Direction
Esther Shapiro
Executive Producer
Ernesto Solo
Production Design
Eden J. Shapiro
Executive Producer
George Huey
Co-Executive Producer
David Leonard
Editor
Gina Kwon
Producer
Karin Chien
Producer
Matthew Greenfield
Producer
Colleen Sharp
Editor
Sarah Beers
Costume Design
Richard Alan Shapiro
Executive Producer
Susan Shopmaker
Casting
Nathan Larson
Original Music Composer
