Day in Our Bay: Views & Voices from Bristol Bay

Shareholders document people, places and culture on October 15, 2011

Day in Our Bay: Views & Voices from Bristol Bay is a community-based digital storytelling project that gives voice to Bristol Bay Native Corporation shareholders in the Bristol Bay region of Alaska through a video contest, culminating in a collaborative documentary film.

The project combines digital tools, training and a powerful platform to provide Bristol Bay’s rural populations an innovative way to share their voices, views and values with the world. (Photo: Chris Scarafile)

11 Day In Our Bay professional Video Mentors traveled to 13 Bristol Bay communities from October 14th to 16th to document the filming process.

Read their profiles at: http://dayinourbay.org/video-mentors/

Some of the first images of Day In Our Bay came from our video mentor Todd Hardesty in Togiak, Alaska.

BBNC Shareholder Olia Sutton (above and right).

In photo above, from left to right: Roger Wassillie, Brian Abraham, Ernest Wasillie, Elizabeth Myas (Togiak host)

Video mentor Laura Ganis (below left) was dispatched to Manakotak where she captured Arline Franklin (below right) filming her sister and brother teaching her daughter about the importance of passing subsistence traditions down to the next generation and local foods.

She also spent time with Diana Gamechuk and her her boys, making Akutaq, or Eskimo ice cream, with greens that she foraged.

Roy Kusegta (left) at a spiritual gathering and potluck at the local school.

Video mentor Nate Chambers spent time in Ekwok where he captured these photos of residents participating in Day In Our Bay.

Albert Wallona (upper left), hunter and trapper filming with his Kodak PlaySport camera.

Fishing with Buck Williams and his son, David Williams, filming their fishing outing (upper right) and a close up ofDavid (right).

You can find the project here:

Day in Our Bay Blog: www.dayinourbay.com

Facebook: www.facebook.com/dayinourbay

Twitter: www.twitter.com/dayinourbay

YouTube: www.youtube.com/dayinourbay