Category: Faith Based Production
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The Life of Apostle Peter with Rick Steves
The Life of the Apostle Peter with Rick Steves is my fifth collaboration with the noted author and PBS travel show host. Past programs include: Opening the Door to Luther, Weaving a Global Neighborhood, The Life of Apostle Peter with Rick Steves, Faithful Travel and In the City for Good. Rick graciously offered his time…
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The Life of Apostle Peter with Rick Steves
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Join me in Rome as we video blog our way through a shoot September 29 to October 2. We are recording footage for a new ELCA documentary, “The Life of Apostle Peter with Rick Steves.” I’ll be writing production notes, posting photos and video clips. This program is special for several reasons. First, European travel…
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Women in the Early Church
Who were the women of the early church? What was their role in the formation of the faith? Why do we know so little about them? We recorded this documentary on location in Rome, Italy. The video tells the story of women in the first three centuries of Christianity. We tell stories about women like…
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Nekemte, Ethiopia, Sunday Morning
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Jim Quattrocki and I recorded this footage in Nekemte, Ethiopia, a small market town west of Addis Ababa. The Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus is a Lutheran Church that began in Eritrea in 1899 when Swedish missionaries arrived. www.frakesproductions.com Tim Frakes Productions is a full service video production company specializing in single camera, documentary productions…
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Zam Zam, A Missionary Odyssey
Zamzam a Missionary Odyssey Zam Zam, A Missionary Odyssey is a 1992 documentary I produced for the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America while I worked for Video Impressions, a production company in Aurora, Illinois. Jim Quattrocki did most of the camera work on interviews recorded in Massachusetts, Kansas and Chicago. Zam Zam, A Missionary Odyssey…
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Understanding Fundamentalism
The influence of fundamentalist Christianity is felt in every walk of American life. This program helps viewers better understand the story behind the rise of fundamentalism and the later evangelical movement, so that Christians, liberal and conservative, can find ways to open doors of dialogue and ecumenical fellowship. The program is the final in a…
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Children’s Peace Camp in Ramallah
Love Thy Neighbor The Living nonviolence peace camp is a ministry of Love Thy Neighbor, an organization dedicated to provide educational resources and programs about the plight of Palestinians in Palestine/Israel and to support both peoples’ deepening commitment to nonviolence as the way to bring a just peace for themselves and their neighbors.
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The Life of Apostle Paul with Rick Steves
I recorded this documentary in 2004 in Greece and Turkey while working for the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. Travel expert and faithful Lutheran Rick Steves came along as on-camera host. Rick also did most of the work on the script. Jim Parks edited the footage. About two thousand years ago Roman soldiers executed Jesus…
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Ready to Forgive: An African Story of Grace
Jim Quattrocki and I produced this documentary in Northern Uganda in October, 2006. Kevin Jacobson helped with logistics. Jim Parks edited the program and wrote some of the music. This is an African story of God’s amazing grace. Northern Uganda has been at war for twenty years. Those most affected, a tribal people known as…
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The Story of Lutheran Revival
This 23-minute video, narrated by former ELCA Presiding Bishop H. George Anderson, tracks prayer and revival in the Bible, in Lutheran history, and in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America today. In this video, viewers hear from: – Bible scholars from ELCA colleges and seminaries who tell the history of God’s reviving work in the…