Category: Middle East
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Laughter is the Best Medicine, Augusta Victoria Hospital Jerusalem
This is a video I produced for Mark Brown and the Lutheran World Federation Jerusalem. Each week the Red Nose Clown Doctors come to Augusta Victoria Hospital to help lift the spirits of young patients there receiving life-saving treatment for cancer and kidney failure. Augusta Victoria Hospital provides many specialty services to West Bank and…
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LWF Jerusalem Vocational Training Program
The Lutheran World Federation Jerusalem‘s Vocational Training program instructs students in the areas of carpentry, auto mechanics, metalwork, plumbing, and telecommunications. The centers in Beit Hanina and in Ramallah provide youth with a creative outlet for their energy and give them skills to compete in the difficult job market. This series of clips, released on…
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AUGUSTA VICTORIA HOSPITAL’S MOBILE MAMMOGRAPHY UNIT PROMOTES EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER
Augusta Victoria Hospital’s Mobile Mammography Unit Promotes Early Detection of CancerVimeo This is a video I produced with Mark Brown for the Lutheran World Federation’s Augusta Victoria Hospital in Jerusalem. Meet some of the Augusta Victoria Hospital staff and partners in the West Bank who are working together to promote early detection for breast cancer.…
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AMER ABU LAILA TELLS HIS STORY
Here is a video I produced with Mark Brown this spring at The Lutheran World Federation‘s Augusta Victoria Hospital in Jerusalem. This video tells the story of 12-year-old Amer Abu Laila, a cancer survivor treated and cared for at AVH. Amer shares his hope for all patients.
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Sunrise, Augusta Victoria Hospital
Sunrise looking over the Judaean Desert from the Mount of Olives. Shots include the Dome of the Rock and Augusta Victoria Hospital.
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Palm Sunday Jerusalem
Christian pilgrims from around the world join local Palestinian Christians as they gather on the Mount of Olives overlooking the Old City waving palm and olive branches and processing along the traditional route taken by Jesus of Nazareth on his triumphal entry into Jerusalem. This year (2014) both the Western and Eastern Christian calendars coincide…
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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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Introducing Jesus of Nazareth
It is Advent and a good time to reflect on the life of Jesus. This production aired on ABC Television in December 2006. I produced it for the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America with my good friend Peter Marty as host. Jim Quattrocki directed the on-camera sequences. Jim Parks did the editing. www.frakesproductions.com
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Iraqi Voices Amplification Project
In October 2009, a small group of artists-photographers, filmmakers, musicians, and new media specialists traveled to Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria with Intersections International to meet and interact with displaced Iraqi refugees and to hear their stories. (Short Version 7:38) (Long Version 16:00 ) (Turn off the HD button if you experience buffering issues.)