Tag: Tim Frakes Productions
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Making Virtual a Reality
Making Virtual a Reality “This must be heaven,” says Shoeless Joe Jackson. “No. It’s Iowa,” writes W.P. Kinsella, in his 1982 novel, Shoeless Joe. 2020 and the Covid-19 Pandemic has blurred the line between virtual and reality in the video production business. Much of my business involves generating content for or actually recording large fundraising…
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Spring and Summer 2015 looks busy
The Spring and summer 2015 calendar is filling up with travel and production. April finds me at Chicago’s McCormick Place working with RFID in Healthcare Consortium at Chicago’s McCormick Place a large health IT industry event. Then it’s off to Honduras for a week with PREDISAN, a faith-based non-profit that provides physical, spiritual, social, economic…
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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…
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Amir Koushkani – Spiritual Journey
This is a Spiritual Journey segment I produced for 30 Good Minutes, WTTW Channel 11, PBS, Chicago. Amir Koushkani is an Iranian musician a Sufi and a master of the Persian instrument called “tar,” a stringed instrument whose soothing quality is particularly appropriate for music that stirs the spirit.
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Three Stories Honoring Veterans
Here are three stories I produced with American veterans. Each reflect an attitude of humble service, typical of folks from the generation of Americans who grew up in the 1930s and 40s and served their country with honor and distinction. Anna Hauge was a Navy nurse on board the USS Tranquility, the hospital ship that…
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ACT3 Network Video
Does Christian unity matter to you? Happy to be working with John H. Armstrong and the ACT3 Network. Here is a new video I produced for and with John, describing his vision of Missional Ecumenism and Christian Unity. What John has to say, might surprise you!
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West Chicago family featured in documentary about immigration reform
Evan Shields, a reporter for the West Chicago Suburban Life filed this story on “Divided Families, Responding with Faith” a 1-hour documentary I shot and edited for the Chicago Sunday Evening Club. Coincidentally, I began my career back in the late 1970’s at the West Chicago Press! The program aired on WTTW, Channel 11, PBS,…
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Divided Families, Responding With Faith
Full Program, 56 minutes This hour-long documentary I shot and edited for the Chicago Sunday Evening Club explores the impact of current US immigration policies on Amy and Carlos, a young family from West Chicago. The program first aired on WTTW, Channel 11, PBS, Chicago on October 16, 2014. Because Carlos was brought to the…
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Country says ‘you can’t be a family’
Here is a story by reporter Marlen Garcia in the Chicago Sun Times about a new documentary I shot and edited for the Chicago Sunday Evening Club. The 1 hour program aired last night on WTTW Channel 11, PBS Chicago at 9:00 p.m. By MARLEN GARCIA October 16, 2014 5:58PM Shortly after Amy Godoy-Guerra married…
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Divided Families, Responding with Faith Promo
Premieres, WTTW Channel 11, PBS, Chicago, Thursday, October 16, 9p.m. This hour-long documentary I shot and edited for the Chicago Sunday Evening Club explores the impact of current US immigration policies on Amy and Carlos, a young family from West Chicago. Because Carlos was brought to the US illegally from Mexico as a child, they…