A private network · By application

Begin the year on the Nile.
Leave with a year of film.

Omni is a members' network that does exactly one thing: retreats. Each is filmed end to end by a personal videographer — so you return with a content library built around you, not a camera roll.

29 Dec 2026 – 2 Jan 2027Twelve seatsCairo · the Nile · the desert
Film still — felucca at dawnHero film · 00:00 / 01:30

01The differentiator

A videographer for the week.
A library for the year.

Most retreats hand you memories. Omni hands you assets. Each guest is paired with a director-level videographer for the entire week — not a hired hand working a shot list.

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On-site, all week

Your videographer is embedded in the retreat from arrival to departure — present for the conversations, the desert, the quiet hour before dinner. The best frames are the ones nobody staged.

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Directed around you

A short interview, considered b-roll, the way you actually move through a room. The edit is built toward your story and your business — not a generic highlight reel with your face in it.

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Delivered as a library

A hero film, a season of verticals, portrait stills, a long-form interview cut — graded, captioned, and in your hands within thirty days. A year of personal-brand content from a single week.

Hero film — 90s16:9 · graded
Verticals ×129:16
Portrait stillsRAW · 24
Interview — long formMulticam
B-roll archive4K · ProRes

02The flagship

Egypt. New Year's.

The inaugural crossing. Five days from Cairo up the Nile and into the desert, timed so the year turns under an open sky. Twelve guests, a restored riverside estate, and a small crew whose only job is to make the week effortless — and to film it.

29 Decemberi

Arrival, Cairo

Private transfers, a slow first dinner, and the only briefing of the week. No itinerary handed out — just the shape of things.

Cairo — first night
30 Decemberii

Upriver

Aboard a private dahabiya. Long table, longer afternoons, and the first real conversations — most of them off-camera, some of them not.

The dahabiya
31 Decemberiii

The turning

Dusk on the water, a fire on the bank, and midnight with no countdown app in sight. The single most-filmed night of the week — and the least performed.

New Year — the bank
01 Januaryiv

Desert, stillness

Out to the dunes before dawn. A long silence, a longer breakfast, and the kind of day that doesn't photograph well but films beautifully.

Western Desert
02 Januaryv

Departures

A last breakfast, private transfers out, and a single promise: your library begins editing the moment you leave.

Last morning

What is held for you

Travel within EgyptAll ground, river, and air between Cairo and the desert, privately arranged.
The estate & the dahabiyaSole use. Twelve rooms, one table, no other guests.
Your videographerOne director-level filmmaker, embedded for the full five days.
Quiet logisticsA physician on call, visas, security, and a concierge who never appears in frame.

03The honest read

Where this could break.

We would rather you decline for the right reason than join for the wrong one. So, plainly — the parts we are still proving:

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It is unproven at scale.

The model is built for twelve. We don't yet know what it loses at fifty — or whether it should ever get there. Joining now means joining the version that is still small enough to be personal, with all the risk that implies.

02

The film is only as good as your candor.

Cameras reward people who forget them. If you spend the week performing, you will leave with beautiful footage of someone performing. The best libraries come from guests willing to be unguarded — and that is not something we can manufacture for you.

03

Egypt is not frictionless.

Travel days are long and the region rewards patience. We handle every logistic we can — but we cannot make a Tuesday in transit feel like a Saturday, and we won't pretend otherwise.

04

It is expensive, deliberately.

Small rooms, real talent, sole-use estates, nothing subsidized by volume. The price is the model, not a markup. If the number gives you pause, that is the number doing its job.

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It may simply not be for you.

If what you want is a holiday, there are better ones. Omni is closer to work you happen to love, in a place that earns it. We would rather tell you that now than have you discover it on day two.


04Apply

We take twelve.

Membership is by application and, for the inaugural crossing, by invitation. Tell us what you are building. If it is a fit, we will reach out privately — there is no public list, and there never will be.

Your application is read by two people and seen by no one else. Members are never named, to you or to anyone.