Category: News
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2013 CHICAGO EMMY AWARD NOMINATION
TIM FRAKES PRODUCTIONS AND GREATER CHICAGO BROADCAST MINISTRIES NOMINATED FOR 2013 CHICAGO EMMY AWARD September 27, 2013 Sanctuary, a documentary series broadcast on ABC7 Chicago has been nominated for Outstanding Achievement in Public and Current Affairs Programming by the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Chicago/Midwest Chapter The Chicago/Midwest Chapter of the National Academy…
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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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Fracking Southern Illinois: Faithful Opposition
Fracking Southern Illinois Faithful Opposition This special half hour documentary explores the critical ethical questions behind hydraulic fracking. Produced by Greater Chicago Broadcast Ministries and Tim Frakes Productions. Every person on earth depends on oil, natural gas, and water for transportation, heating, cooking and countless daily tasks, but is our expanding consumption of energy resources…
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Fracking Southern Illinois: Faithful Opposition
Fracking Southern Illinois: Faithful Opposition Sunday, June 30, 1:00 p.m. ABC7 Chicago Oil, natural gas and water. Every member of society depends on these resources for transportation, heating, cooking and thousands of daily tasks. But is our expanding demand for energy resources faithful? Recent advances in an oil and natural gas extraction process that uses…
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Everyone Loves Ice Cream
Everyone loves Ice cream. Even in an Islamabad, Pakistan market. Travel teaches me that you see what you look for. If you expect terrorist, plan to be frightened, and assume the worst, that’s probably what you will see. On the other hand, if you look for kindness, humor, and hospitality, that is most certainly what…
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Building Bridges with Pakistan
Tim Frakes Productions recorded stories documenting 20 leaders (approx. 10 US, 10 Pakistani) who met in Islamabad and Lahore, Pakistan April 22-27 2013 to cooperatively set an action agenda toward policy change on both sides, building bridges of understanding and respect between our two countries. Facilitated by Intersections International, and in collaboration with the International…
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289,754 ELCA YouTube Views
Recently I took a peak at the Youtube channel for the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. Back in the late 1990’s while I still worked for the ELCA Churchwide offices, our Department for Communication began uploading programs to what was then called, Google Video. After Google purchased Youtube in 2006 for $1.65 billion, Google Video…
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Sanctuary: Worker Justice Promo
Tune into Sanctuary this Easter Sunday at 1:00 p.m. for a profile of three dynamic women advocating for justice in the workplace and in immigrant communities. This is a production of Greater Chicago Broadcast Ministries and Tim Frakes Productions.
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Immigration Prayer Vigil
Today, I recorded a weekly 7:15 am Prayer Vigil to end deportations and for Immigration Reform at the Broadview Immigrant Detention Center 1930 S. Beach St., Broadview, IL. I must say, that I’ve never encountered such a polite police force. The Broadview cops where cheerful, friendly, helpful and pleasant to work with, despite the freezing…
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Celebrating Six Years!
Exactly 6 years ago today, friends and colleagues at the ELCA Churchwide office bid me “farewell”, beginning a new chapter with Tim Frakes Productions. What a wonderful ride it has been! Deep thanks to my family and all the clients, friends and mentors here in Chicagoland, across the United States and around the world, who…