Category: Faith Based Production
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Web Video Workshop
Tuesday, July 15, 2008 my friend Jim Parks and I will team up to conduct at web video workshop. The event is co-sponsored by the Religion Communicators Council Greater Chicago Chapter and the Interfaith Youth Core. To download a promotional flier to go: Web Video Workshop Flier Participants will learn: • How to shoot, edit,…
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Lutheran Life Communities
It is a pleasure to announce that this summer I will be working with Lutheran Life Communities, a top-tier, faith-based, non-profit, residential and healthcare organization based in Arlington Heights, Illinois. Several video projects are on the agenda. We will tell stories about the organization, which began in 1892, and interview staff, residents and their families.…
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Augusta Victoria Hospital 2008
My friend the Rev. Mark Brown, is the Lutheran World Federation Regional Representative in Jerusalem. Last February, Mark asked me to help out with a promotional video for the Augusta Victoria Hospital. The Lutheran World Federation’s Augusta Victoria Hospital has served Palestinian refugees since 1950. The mission of Augusta Victoria Hospital is to alleviate human…
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30 Good Minutes and Tim Frakes Productions
May 17, 2008CHICAGO Tim Frakes Productions and the Chicago Sunday Evening Club will be working together this summer. The Chicago Sunday Evening Club produces 30 Good Minutes, a television broadcast and web site that features some of the leading voices in religion, as well as the stories of everyday people whose lives reflect the rich…
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Streetlights Music Video
In February 2007 I visited Ziway, Ethiopia with Food for the Hungry. We were shooting footage for a music video with the Christian band “Willet“. Here are the results.www.frakesproductions.com Tim Frakes Productions is a full service video production company specializing in single camera, documentary productions for corporate and non-profit clients. www.frakesproductions.com
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The Best Way to Rock and Roll
This is story from my archives. Back in 1998 my buddy Jim Parks and I did a story on Jim and Peter Mayer. The Mayer brothers are the sons of Lutheran missionaries. They grew up in Tamil Nadu, India. Today they play bass and lead guitar for Jimmy Buffett’s Coral Reefer Band. www.frakesproductions.com Tim Frakes…
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Tanzania Jubilee
This video recounts the history of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania. I produced it back in 1992 in the Swahili language with the help of Lutheran Missionary Howard Olsen. The roots of organized Lutheranism in the nation now known as Tanzania had their origin in the late 19th century. The work began in 1887…
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St. Peter Goes to the Dump: A New ELCA video
Rick Steves posted this story on his blog. It is the tale of a missing videotape, lost during our recent Rome production on “The Life of Apostle Peter.” For a look at all five of our collaborations go to: http://www.elca.org/communication/ricksteves/. Posted by Rick Steves, December 13, 2007Squeezing a few days in Rome between a Greece…
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New Rick Steves/ELCA Web Site
The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) has launched a new flash video web site featuring five Rick Steves videos. Faithful Travel features five programs produced by Tim Frakes for the ELCA including; The Life of Apostle Peter, Faithful Travels, The Life of Apostle Paul, Opening the Door to Luther and Weaving a Global Neighborhood.…
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ELCA News Release: Uganda: Ready to Forgive
CHICAGO (ELCA) — NBC television stations and affiliates will begin broadcasting “Ready to Forgive: An African Story of Grace” on Dec. 2. The 60-minute documentary about the faith and spirit of the Acholi people of Northern Uganda is a production of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA). Through 21 years of war, death, rape,…