Summary
To celebrate the release of their film, "Heima", Icelandic group Sigur Ros made available extra footage for people to download and edit as their own.
Judges consisted of the group themself with the assistance of Nick Fenton (editor of Heima), Dean O'Connor and John Best (managers of the band) and Dean DeBlois (the director of Heima).
My minn heima entry is a collection of thoughts, mostly about home. The main underlying theme is that home isn't a building. It's where you feel most comfortable, alive, in your element, etc.. That can be anything, from playing music to eating cake. Home is an abstract idea.
Accolades
"Wow. This is why we worked to support HD. And this is why we work so hard to support Vimeo. Just outstanding. And this is why I believe that the future of music video online will be inexorably intertwined. Outstanding creation." - Jonathan Marcus, Vimeo Staff "Great texture, wonderful effects. Very well done and inspiring!" - Blake Whitman, Vimeo Community Director "Really very bloody rather spankingly good. You shivered me all up!" - Vimeo UserContest Results and Press
My effort was chosen as one 10 winning entries out of a total 146 entered films, and as a result featured on the front page of Youtube for a number of days. All in all, it has been viewed over 120,000 times on youtube.
The entry took off on Vimeo as well. Vimeo is geared towards original user created content. "Minn Heima" was featured on the front page and chosen as a Staff Pick. It's been viewed more than 8,000 times there.
