While I was in Brazil for Ira & Andrea’s wedding I had a couple extra days on my own at the end. I spent a good chunk of that time staying out of the rain and editing footage from the wedding, but I also took about 24 hours to put together a 140-second short film for the Nikon Festival– a contest Nikon put on to celebrate HD video/social networking and their new camera the D5000. The premise was simple: Make a 140-second video about “your day.” Pretty opened ended.

So while I was in Rio I let my time there– the people I met, the places I went, the weather– form the story. What resulted is a narrative pseudo-documentary.

There are two prizes: the grand prize of $100,000 is awarded by judges Chase Jarvis, Rainn Wilson, and iJustine. But there is an audience award of $25,000 that comes from the voting system on the site.

Out of over 1,000 videos, I made the top 50, and the polls are open for voting. So do me a huge favor:

1. Go to my video
2. Watch.
3. Vote.
4. Comment.

This will be my last shameless plug of 2009. Thank you all for your support. Screenshots/poster below…

Thanks to Ben Bishop and Caravel for some of the music and for Nimai Coppieters for being my only character (besides me I guess).