Category: Broadcast
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After Prison, Responding with Faith (Full Program)
In this new documentary I produced for WTTW Channel 11, the Chicago Sunday Evening Club presents the stories of three faith communities that are doing the difficult, but necessary work of healing the lives of ex-offenders, and standing with them as they reenter society. Our hope is to engage with communities of faith in deep…
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After Prison, Responding With Faith
Broadcast Premier! “After Prison, Responding With Faith”, Thursday, April 3, 9:00 p.m. WTTW Channel 11, PBS, Chicago. The Chicago Sunday Evening Club presents a new, one-hour television documentary profiling three faith-based responses to life after prison. My friends Jim Quattrocki, Darren Harrison and Sandy Sticha helped to produce this hopeful look at faithful responses to…
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Sanctuary, Chicago’s Christians from the East
Western Christians, both Catholic and Protestant, often overlook and sometimes even disregard their Eastern brothers and sisters – even when those Christians suffer persecution, become refugees and then live among us. In this documentary His Grace, Bishop Demetrios the auxiliary bishop of Mokissosof the Greek Orthodox Metropolis of Chicago, will introduce to us Coptic, Assyrian…
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Sabir Hussain: I’m Not Alone
This is an excerpt from a new documentary from Greater Chicago Broadcast Ministries which will air on Sunday, December 29 at 11:00 a.m. on ABC7 Chicago. Professor Sabir Hussain from Edwards College Peshawar, Pakistan, engaged in inter-faith dialogue and peace-making long before a group of American scholars and theologians visited Pakistan in April 2013. The…
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2013 CHICAGO EMMY AWARD NOMINATION
TIM FRAKES PRODUCTIONS AND GREATER CHICAGO BROADCAST MINISTRIES NOMINATED FOR 2013 CHICAGO EMMY AWARD September 27, 2013 Sanctuary, a documentary series broadcast on ABC7 Chicago has been nominated for Outstanding Achievement in Public and Current Affairs Programming by the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Chicago/Midwest Chapter The Chicago/Midwest Chapter of the National Academy…
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Sanctuary, The Cross is Still Burning
Follow the journey of a charred KKK cross burned 50 years ago when civil rights activists tried to desegregate churches in Jackson, Mississippi. Today, it stands as a sculpture in First United Methodist Church, Chicago Temple, inspiring people of faith who continue to march in solidarity for racial justice. Featuring: • Rev. Phil Blackwell, First…
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Different Drummers
Yours truly, stopped by CBS Chicago to recorded an appearance on Different Drummers for Greater Chicago Broadcast Ministries. In front of, rather than behind the camera to talk about the future of documentaries. Host Julian DeShazier is the Senior Minister at University Church, Chicago.
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Fracking Southern Illinois: Faithful Opposition
Fracking Southern Illinois: Faithful Opposition Sunday, June 30, 1:00 p.m. ABC7 Chicago Oil, natural gas and water. Every member of society depends on these resources for transportation, heating, cooking and thousands of daily tasks. But is our expanding demand for energy resources faithful? Recent advances in an oil and natural gas extraction process that uses…
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Sanctuary: Worker Justice
Meet three three dynamic women advocating for justice in the workplace and in immigrant communities. Kim Bobo is the Executive Director of Interfaith Worker Justice, CJ Hawking is the Executive Director of Arise Chicago and Elena Segura works with the Office for Immigrant Affairs in the Archdiocese of Chicago. Sanctuary, is an in-depth documentary program that…
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Sanctuary: Refugee Christmas
Sanctuary: Refugee Chirstmas is a documentary produced by the Greater Chicago Broadcast Ministry and Tim Frakes Productions. Follow three Chicago area refugee families as they share their stories and reflect on Christmas in America. With feature commentary on the scriptural theme of displacement by Rev. Phil Blackwell, First United Methodist Church, Chicago Temple, Rev. Lillian…