Category: News
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Spring and Summer 2015 looks busy
The Spring and summer 2015 calendar is filling up with travel and production. April finds me at Chicago’s McCormick Place working with RFID in Healthcare Consortium at Chicago’s McCormick Place a large health IT industry event. Then it’s off to Honduras for a week with PREDISAN, a faith-based non-profit that provides physical, spiritual, social, economic…
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Country says ‘you can’t be a family’
Here is a story by reporter Marlen Garcia in the Chicago Sun Times about a new documentary I shot and edited for the Chicago Sunday Evening Club. The 1 hour program aired last night on WTTW Channel 11, PBS Chicago at 9:00 p.m. By MARLEN GARCIA October 16, 2014 5:58PM Shortly after Amy Godoy-Guerra married…
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Sanctuary, Healing in a Holy Land ELCA News Release
Sanctuary, Healing in a Holy Land from Tim Frakes on Vimeo. Augusta Victoria Hospital featured in documentary By Candice Buchbinder, ELCA News Augusta Victoria Hospital, located on the Mount of Olives in East Jerusalem, is featured in a documentary, “Healing in a Holy Land,” produced by Frakes Productions. Augusta Victoria is a program of The…
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Healing in a Holy Land: New Broadcast Documentary, ABC7 Chicago
Healing in a Holy Land How about some good news from the Middle East! The Lutheran World Federation (LWF)-run Augusta Victoria Hospital (AVH) in Jerusalem provides life-saving healthcare to Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza, and is the subject of a new documentary I produced for Greater Chicago Broadcast Ministries. The AVH is an…
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What’s Tim Up To? Spring 2014
It’s been a busy and very interesting winter and and spring and I would like to share some of my experiences with you and extend an invitation to watch two of my projects on broadcast television here in Chicago. This winter I’ve been working with the Chicago Sunday Evening Club to produce a one hour…
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State Supreme Court strikes down eavesdropping law
The Illinois Supreme Court today, struck down the state’s eavesdropping law, one of the strictest in the nation that made audio recording of any person, even in public, illegal unless that person gave their consent. This represents a huge victory for independent video producers like myself who potentially expose themselves to criminal prosecution for simply…
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Returning to Jerusalem with the Lutheran World Federation
Today I purchased airfare for a return to Jerusalem to work with Mark Brown and Tawfiq Nasser with the Lutheran World Federation Department for World Service – Jerusalem. The Lutheran World Federation’s Jerusalem Program has been running projects related to health, education, and humanitarian aid in the Palestinian Territories for over 60 years. In addition…
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2013 Year in Review
It’s been a busy year. Thank you to all my wonderful clients who gave me the opportunity to tell meaningful stories here in the Chicago area, across the United States and around the world! 31 Lengths Ascension School Augsburg Fortress Bethesda Lutheran Communities Chicago Sunday Evening Club Chicago Theological Seminary Community Impact Foundation Council of…
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Building Bridges of Faith with Pakistan
Building Bridges of Faith with Pakistan is a 30-minute television documentary produced by for Greater Chicago Broadcast Ministries with Intersections International. The program will air on ABC7 Chicago, December 29, 2013. Come with me to Pakistan and watch this compelling eyewitness documentary on the testimonies of key Pakistani and American religious leaders, who met in…
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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…