Tag: Tim Frakes Productions
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Advocating for the Deaf: Rehema’s Testimony
Advocating for the Deaf: Rehema’s Testimony CBM US, asked me to record this story at a disabilities forum at Gallaudet University in Washington D.C. The event took place in advance of the 2012 International AIDS Conference. Rehema works with Comprehensive Community Based Rehabilitation in Tanzania (CCBRT), the largest indigenous provider of disability and rehabilitation services…
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Colorado Zip Line
Went on my first zip line at Lutheran Valley Retreat near Divide, Colorado last week while on a shoot with Bethesda Lutheran Communities. The campers were zipping down the mountain, so I needed a shot from their perspective. It’s like a ski lift in wild reverse!
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Meeting Photojournalist John H. White
While on a shoot in Chicago’s Federal Plaza for the Council for a Parliament of World Religions, producer Kathy Dale McNair introduced me to Pulitzer Prize winning photojournalist John H. White. Mr. White is a legend in Chicago journalism circles a true gentleman an a wonderful artist. I mentioned that I had first seen John…
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Death of Harold Washington
November 25, 1987 we were recording the lighting of the Salvation Army Christmas Tree near Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago when we learned that Mayor Harold Washington has suffered a heart attack. This is the first national news story I worked on as a young producer with WCFC-TV 38 Chicago. Wade Bobbitt ran camera as…
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Eboo Patel on Millennials and the 2012 Election
. This is an excerpt from an interview I recorded in May, 2012 for Odyssey Networks with Eboo Patel, Founder and President of Interfaith Youth Core.
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Christian History Magazine and People of Faith
Christian History Magazine, a publication of Christian History Institute, has devoted a full issue to People of Faith: Christianity in America, a documentary series currently being distributed by Vision Video/Gateway Films. You may read the full on-line edition at Christianmistorymagazine.org The magazine makes an excellent companion study guide for adult and young adult groups who…
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People’s Resource Center YouTube Channel
The People’s Resource Center, an organization that brings neighbors together to respond to hunger and poverty in DuPage County, Illinois, is making the most of the video segments I helped them produced this spring by creating a YouTube Channel. The channel offers PRC a place where clients, supporters and the wider community can easily access…
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Immigration Protest Chicago
Tuesday, May 15, 2012. I took a morning Metra train downtown to hunt for early NATO protestors. A demonstration was scheduled for Federal Plaza. Apparently organizers couldn’t get their act together and the place was empty. Armed with my camera and Twitter, I learned that an immigration protest was brewing over on W. Van Buren…
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What is Help? A Testimony by Valerie Mossman-Celestin
Valerie Mossman-Celestin is the Executive Director of Haitian Artisans for Peace International, in Musac, Haiti. HAPI is a capacity building project funded in part by the United Methodist Committee On Relief. Valerie shared her testimony with me while on a visit to Musac in 2011. It is a spiritual journey that began with the question,…
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Seminex: Memories of a Church Divided
This is a preview of a 2015 documentary about a divide in the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod in the 1970’s. Order a DVD of the full, 42 minute SEMINEX documentary today for $19. Our Indigogo campaign to raise funds for our next documentary, God’s Glory, Neighbor’s Good: The Story of Pietism ended on March 10,…