Tag: Lutheran
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Beyond Tsunami
This is a video I put together after the Tsunami. My pals, Jim Quattrocki, Kevin Jacobson and I went to Tamil Nadu, India one month after the big Tsunami disaster on Christmas, 2005. Jim did most of the videography. Some of it is mine. The actual disater footage comes from a wedding guy we met…
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Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago
This is a new image video I helped produce for the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago. LSTC is one of seven seminaries affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. Susan Hague from Spring Creative wrote the script and produced. Jim Parks edited. Most of the camera work is mine. www.frakesproductions.com Tim Frakes Productions…
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Lutheran Roots in America
Lutheran Roots in American is a documentary I produced for the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America with the Rev. Lowell Almen. The story of Lutherans in America is the story of America itself.
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Understanding the Roman Catholic Church
Understanding the Roman Catholic Church is a documentary I produced for the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America MOSAIC series in 2005. The idea was to help Protestant Christians better understand their Roman Catholic friends and family by having Roman Catholics tell their own story. This program has done quite well on Youtube.
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Holy Communion
This is a documentary I produced for the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America in 2006
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From Coffins to Hope: AIDS in Africa
Fall 2001 MOSAIC, the video Magazine of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. Frequently, Africa is portrayed as a continent of war, famine, and disease. That is easy to understand. The continent has the highest portion of HIV/AIDS victims. Over 25 million are HIV positive. MOSAIC went to Africa to collect stories of individuals and…
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Feed the Roots of Leadership
Feed the Roots of Leadership is a vision to support seminary education, campus ministry and outdoor ministry in both the eastern and western parts of the Upstate New York Synod of the ELCA.
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Opening the Door to Luther Production Blog Day 5
Sunday, September 24 Sunday morning was devoted to shooting in Erfurt. This was the town were Luther spent his formative years at the Augustinian monastery. A huge Catholic cathedral still stands in the impressive town square. We recorded footage inside and out. Rick, Peter and I then hired a carriage that took us across town…
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Opening The Door to Luther Production Blog Day 1
Wednesday, September 20 Traveling alone, I set off for a visit to Lutherland. The purpose of the trip is to produce a documentary on the life of Martin Luther in the German reformation cities of Eisenach, Erfurt, Eisleben Coburg and Wittenberg. Martin Luther, of course, was the 16th century Augustinian monk who sparked the Protestant…
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Her Words Took Wing: Caronline Iverson Ackerman
This short documentary about Caroline Iverson Ackerman was produced in 1995 for Mosaic, the video magazine of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. The following biography is from the Harvard University Library Papers of Caroline Iverson Ackerman. Caroline Iverson Ackerman was born in 1918 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to Jacob Engval and Ella Dorothea (Schmidt) Iverson.…