Tim Frakes Productions

Month: November 2007

  • Forbidden Family

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    Forbidden Family is a story about the separation barrier and its effect on one Lutheran Palestinian family. I produced this video for the ELCA in 2005. The social, political, economic, and religious situation in the Holy Land is complex. This video, “Forbidden Family,” highlights one very visible aspect of those complexities and its effect on…

  • Welcome to the Churchwide Organization

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    “Welcome to the ELCA Churchwide Organization” is an employee orientation video for new employees working at the Lutheran Center in Chicago or in deployed settings around the Church.www.frakesproductions.com Tim Frakes Productions is a full service video production company specializing in single camera, documentary productions for corporate and non-profit clients. www.frakesproductions.com

  • ELCA News Release: Uganda: Ready to Forgive

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    CHICAGO (ELCA) — NBC television stations and affiliates will begin broadcasting “Ready to Forgive: An African Story of Grace” on Dec. 2. The 60-minute documentary about the faith and spirit of the Acholi people of Northern Uganda is a production of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA). Through 21 years of war, death, rape,…

  • Uganda: Ready to Forgive Spot

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    NBC This December After 21 years of war, the Acholi people of Northern Uganda are united in a belief that the only real solution to their problem is reconciliation and forgiveness. Join best selling author and Rwandan genocide survivor Immaculee Ilibagiza as she hosts “Ready to Forgive: An African Story of Grace. This is a…

  • Home from Uganda

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    Jim Quattrocki and I returned from Northern Uganda today with about eight hours of new footage. Our shoot with Immaculée Ilibagiza went well. We recorded her in a number of locations around Kitgum, Uganda. This photo is a video still from the production. Tim Frakes Productions is a full service video production company specializing in…

  • The LRA Asks for Forgiveness

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    Tim Frakes Productions is a full service video production company specializing in single camera, documentary productions for corporate and non-profit clients. www.frakesproductions.com

  • A Woman Named Rose

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    Kitgum, Northern UgandaYesterday I met a woman named Rose. Rose is from Southern Sudan. Kitgum, the town we are staying in, is only a few kilometers south of the border. Rose and her sister, Cecelia went to collect firewood one day. Two rebel soldiers abducted them at gunpoint. They killed Cecilia, stabbed and abused Rose.…

  • Meeting the LRA

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    Thursday was quite a day. In the morning we stopped by the local government officials office to pay our respects. This is a typical practice in Africa. The district governor was busy in a meeting with local elders. We overheard that elders were making plans for a visit from a peace delegation that included members…

  • Lot’s o’ luggage!

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    It takes a lot of luggage to shoot a documentary in Uganda! Made it to Amsterdam safe and sound. Met up with our old buddy Kevin Jacobson. Tomorrow it is off to Africa! Tim Frakes Productions is a full service video production company specializing in single camera, documentary productions for corporate and non-profit clients. www.frakesproductions.com

  • Back to Uganda

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    It’s back on the road this Sunday. Jim Quattrocki and I return to Kitgum, Uganda to expand a documentary we started last year. “Ready to Forgive: An African Story of Grace” looks at the Acholi people of Northern Uganda. For twenty years, the Acholi faced war, rape, torture and abduction. Rebels known as the Lord’s…