Tag: Tim Frakes Productions
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Picture This!
Picture This: The Lutheran, May, 2014 issue published a photo I took for the Lutheran World Federation Jerusalem Program recently. The story features Palestinian clown doctor Izza Natsheh with Red Nose Clown Doctors International as he performs for a child in the Lutheran World Federation’s Augusta Victoria Hospital. Laughter is good medicine! The videos we…
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After Prison, Responding with Faith (Full Program)
In this new documentary I produced for WTTW Channel 11, the Chicago Sunday Evening Club presents the stories of three faith communities that are doing the difficult, but necessary work of healing the lives of ex-offenders, and standing with them as they reenter society. Our hope is to engage with communities of faith in deep…
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Palm Sunday Jerusalem
Christian pilgrims from around the world join local Palestinian Christians as they gather on the Mount of Olives overlooking the Old City waving palm and olive branches and processing along the traditional route taken by Jesus of Nazareth on his triumphal entry into Jerusalem. This year (2014) both the Western and Eastern Christian calendars coincide…
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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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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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Weaving a Global Neighborhood with Rick Steves
Weaving a Global Neighborhood with Rick Steves is a documentary I produced in 1998 while working for the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA). PBS travel host and best-selling guidebook author Rick Steves and ELCA colleague Kevin Jacobson and I visited Paupua New Guinea where Kevin served as an educator. Weaving a Global Neighborhood with…
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2013 Year in Review
It’s been a busy year. Thank you to all my wonderful clients who gave me the opportunity to tell meaningful stories here in the Chicago area, across the United States and around the world! 31 Lengths Ascension School Augsburg Fortress Bethesda Lutheran Communities Chicago Sunday Evening Club Chicago Theological Seminary Community Impact Foundation Council of…