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.

A Day in Our Bay: Voices & Views from Bristol Bay 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.

On one day - October 15 - BBNC shareholders are invited to participate in a video contest to share images from their lives, their land, their Native Way of Life.

More than 150 Kodak PlaySport cameras were sent to Day In Our Bay participants as a gift for their contributions to this video tapestry of life in the Bristol Bay region.

Our professional video mentors, 11 in total, will be traveling to 13  Bristol Bay communities from Oct. 14-16, to teach video workshops and help participants in each village and town prepare for and execute their shoot.

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

Video submitted in the contest will be used by professional editors to create an eight- to ten-minute movie that will be featured during the Anchorage International Film Festival, Dec. 2-11, 2011 in Anchorage.

The deadline to submit videos for consideration in the contest is Oct. 20 for raw footage and Oct. 25 for Advanced Category, edited 3-minute short films. Selected winners will be announced at the festival.

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