Category: Tim Frakes Productions
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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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UPIC 2014 Critical Thinking Forum
This is one in a series of videos I produced for Intersections International in Islamabad, Pakistan, March 10-15, 2014. Dr. Munazza Yaqoob from the International Islamic University in Islamabad, Pakistan heads the Critical Thinking Forum, a kind of interdisciplinary think-tank for young Pakistani women. The US-Pakistan Interreligious Consortium seeks to cooperatively set an action agenda…
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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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UPIC 2014 Ali Tariq Testimony
Here is an interview I did for Intersections International with Ali Tariq, a consultant with the Iqbal International Institute for Research and Dialogue at International Islamic University, Islamabad, Pakistan. Ali discusses his 2014 visit to the US and his perceptions of Americans prior to and after his first visit. Reflecting on his experiences and interactions…
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After Prison, Responding With Faith
Broadcast Premier! “After Prison, Responding With Faith”, Thursday, April 3, 9:00 p.m. WTTW Channel 11, PBS, Chicago. The Chicago Sunday Evening Club presents a new, one-hour television documentary profiling three faith-based responses to life after prison. My friends Jim Quattrocki, Darren Harrison and Sandy Sticha helped to produce this hopeful look at faithful responses to…
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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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Guys Guts God’s Glory 2014 LMM Gathering Promo
Doug Haugen from Lutheran Men in Mission asked me to produce this promotional video for the summer 2014 LMM gathering in Nashville, Tennessee.
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Jacquline Lewis: The Holiness Bridge
The Rev Jacqui Lewis, Senior Minister of the Middle Collegiate Church tours the Faisal Mosque, the largest worship space in Pakistan and discovers connections with her Muslim hosts through a shared reverence for the divine and through sacred space. Facilitated by Intersections International, and in collaboration with the International Islamic University in Islamabad (IIU) and…
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Rogation of the Ninevites
The Rogation of the Ninevites is three days of fasting in Eastern Christian Church traditions. The fast commemorates the Biblical story of Jonah. This footage was recorded at the Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church, 7201 N Ashland Blvd, Chicago. The footage is part of a documentary for Greater Chicago Broadcast Ministries about Christians of the East…
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Parables Worship, Wayzata Presbyterian Church
PARABLES is the story of an interactive, hands-on, “special-needs friendly” weekly worship service at Wayzata Presbyterian Church in Wayzata, Minnesota. I produced this story for CUE Seminaries. PARABLES is led by Pastor Leslie Neugent, the parent of a special needs child. According to Neugent, “The inspiration for this came after attending a [worship] service. A…