Category: Documentary
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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 – Panel Discussion and Dialogue
After Prison: Responding with Faith is a new documentary I produced for the Chicago Sunday Evening Club for WTTW Channel 11. The documentary premieres on WTTW HD on Thursday, April 3rd at 9pm. It will be rebroadcast on WTTW Prime on Friday, April 4th at 3pm, and Sunday, April 6th at 6pm. The program features…
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UPIC 2014 Critical Thinking Forum
This is one in a series of videos I produced for Intersections International in Islamabad, Pakistan, March 10-15, 2014. Dr. Munazza Yaqoob from the International Islamic University in Islamabad, Pakistan heads the Critical Thinking Forum, a kind of interdisciplinary think-tank for young Pakistani women. The US-Pakistan Interreligious Consortium seeks to cooperatively set an action agenda…
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Parables Worship, Wayzata Presbyterian Church
PARABLES is the story of an interactive, hands-on, “special-needs friendly” weekly worship service at Wayzata Presbyterian Church in Wayzata, Minnesota. I produced this story for CUE Seminaries. PARABLES is led by Pastor Leslie Neugent, the parent of a special needs child. According to Neugent, “The inspiration for this came after attending a [worship] service. A…
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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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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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Golf Time
My good buddy Jim Quattrocki cut this fun bit together. It was a lovely day at Big Run in Lemont, Illinois with JIm, Darren Harrison and his cousin Julie.
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Melody Fox Ahmed: The Future of Pakistan-US Relations
Melody Fox Ahmed from Georgetown University’s Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs discovers a alternative face of Pakistan while visiting Lahore Institute for Mechanical Sciences (LOMS). Facilitated by Intersections International, and in collaboration with the International Islamic University in Islamabad (IIU) and the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), the visit was part…
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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…