Category: Tim Frakes Productions
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This is Our Home: Tackling Rural Solid Waste Issues
Proud of the work I get to do with the Rural Community Assistance Partnership, Inc. (RCAP). Check out this new video on solid waste management we recorded in Puerto Rico! Manzanilla lies on the southern coast of Puerto Rico, where the Jacaguas River meets the Caribbean Sea. Like many rural communities, they face challenges with…
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Rube Goldberg Teleprompter
Necessity being the mother of invention, I decided to build myself a Rube Goldberg teleprompter. Additional motivation was supplied by Andy Weir’s novel, The Martian. I am also cheap. For those not in the TV business, a teleprompter allows talent to speak into a camera lens while simultaneously looking at the script through a reflected…
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Preaching and Healing
Immigration reform and health care are hot topics in the run-up to the 2016 US Presidential election. Much of the debate centers around migrants from Central American nations like Honduras, where poverty, violence, and lack of economic resources drive many families to make the long and dangerous journey north to the United States, in search…
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Predisan: Preaching and Healing
Here is a video I produced in Olancho, Honduras for Presidan. For more than 29 years, Predisan has provided holistic care in one of Central America’s poorest regions. in the making. Predisand is a story of changed lives. It’s a story that needs to be told. Also, consider “Liking” Predisan on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/predisan?fref=ts
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Sanctuary, Selma at 50: Still Marching
50 years ago, civil rights activists marched across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama and into history. In this addition of Sanctuary, we join with the Chicago Sunday Evening Club and Chicago Theological Seminary to present interviews and highlights from “Selma at 50: Still Marching” tracing a thread through the legacy of civil rights…
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Stations of the Cross
Stations of the Cross A 14-part adult ecumenical, education resource, illuminating the stations of the cross in Jerusalem through stories of the Palestinian people. Partner with us as we re-introduce and connect an ancient act of Christian devotion with contemporary stories of the Palestinian people in a new DVD educational resource that will support the work of the Evangelical Lutheran…
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Bruhi Mukundethi, Indian Raga Labs
Here is a music video I recorded and edited with Ted Mason for Indian Raga Labs. This was my introduction to Indian classical music. Very fun to work with this talented group of young adults. Indian Raga creates a community of instructors (Fellows) and students who work together to create accessible and commercially viable music…
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Sanctuary, ACT3 Network a Dream for Christian Unity
Tune in Sunday, March 22 at 11:30 a.m. on ABC7 Chicago for Sanctuary. This half hour broadcast tells the story of a former Baptist pastor, John H. Armstrong and his journey toward a new grass roots call for Christian unity with the ACT3 Network. Armstrong’s story will challenge what you think about your faith, and…
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Seminex: Memories of a Church Divided, A Documentary by Tim Frakes
Hey all you Lutherans out there. I’ve finally finished Seminex: Memories of a Church Divided, A Documentary by Tim Frakes. It’s a project I’ve been working on for more than a decade. I had no budget for this production. Nothing. It’s all a labor of love, because this is story that needs to be told.…
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Not the Cuban music you were expecting. D`Cámara Opus 5, J. Strauss
With all the hubbub surrounding the recent trend toward normalizing relations with Cuba, I thought I would repost this March, 2011 video I recorded in Matanza, Cuba. My friend Tony Fernandez is the bass player in this wonderful string quintet. D`Cámara Opus 5 is popular in Cuba and has toured in the United States, Europe…