Category: Tim Frakes Productions
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Franciscan Outreach
Here is a video I produced for Franciscan Outreach, one of the oldest and largest providers for men and women who are homeless in the Chicago area. For more than 53 years, Franciscan Outreach has provided men and women experiencing homelessness with the critical services they need to improve their lives. Franciscan Outreach meets people…
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US Pakistani Interreligious Consortium (UPIC) Retrospective -2017
The US Pakistani Interreligious Consortium (UPIC) Retrospective -2017 was created for the Intersections 10th Anniversary Intersections International Gala. The video covers four trips I made to Pakistan with Intersections between 2013 and 2017. Writer/Editor: Kierra Parlagreco; Camera/Sound: Tim Frakes; Voice Over: Kat Harrington; Sound Mix and Design: Kelly E. Harnett; Music: VideoHelper
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Intersections International US Pakistani Interreligious Consortium (UPIC) 2017 Stories
Here is a piece I produced in Pakistan in March 2017 for Intersections International. Intersections led a group of more than 30 delegates from 12 countries to Pakistan (Lahore and Islamabad) as part of the ongoing US-Pakistan Interreligious Consortium (UPIC) program. UPIC brings religious and academic scholars from the US and Pakistan together to foster…
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What Will Happen if DACA is Cancelled?
Here is a video I produced for World Relief about DACA, also known as the Dream Act. Liz Dong is a member of Wheaton Chinese Alliance, part of the Christian and Missionary Alliance – the same denomination I am a part of. Following the November election, I was eager to find a way to voice…
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How’s this for a selfie?
How’s this for a selfie? Working on a documentary on the history of WCFC TV38, I unearthed these vintage 1980’s stand-up’s featuring your’s truly as a cub reporter on the weekly news magazine, Page Two. We covered all kinds of stories, often with a conservative bent that makes me cringe these days. Thanks to Wade…
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Missional Ecumenism: The ACT3 Cohort
John H. Armstrong asked me to put together this video describing the ACT3 Cohort. The cohort is an intentional Christian community, lay, clergy, Roman Catholic, Protestant and Orthodox, men and women, who come together for the purpose of pursuing a vision of Missional Ecumenism. It’s the idea that Christ’s church does not have a mission…
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Illinois Senator Dick Durbin, Remember the Dreamers in your Prayers
Friday, December 2, 2016, I recorded Illinois Senator Richard (Dick) Durbin at the Chicago Leadership Prayer Breakfast. The program airs twice. December 18 and December 25 at noon on ABC-7.2 Live Well Channel. In his remarks, Durbin challenged assembled Chicago business and religious leaders to remember “…the 40,000 people who awakened this morning in our…
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CITGO Lemont Generations of Service
The CITGO Lemont Refinery has been serving the Lemont, Romeoville, Lockport and Joliet communities for 90 years. This video profiles three families that represent generations of service at the refinery.
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Sanctuary, Multi Cultural Youth Leadership Academy
Sunday, October 2, 2016, ABC7 Chicago. For more than 20 years, a Chicago-based group of African American men and women have run an Africentric outdoor ministry program for inner city youth know as SIMBA (Safe in My Brother’s Arms). As a result, hundreds of at-risk children experience the beauty of the outdoors each summer, while…