Edongo Band, Kitgum, Northern Uganda
Posted by timfrakes | Filed under Africa, Education, Interesting Places, Music, Tim Frakes Productions, Travel
Jim Quattrocki and I were in Kitgum, Northern Uganda, recording a story at the Anglican Cathedral. I can’t remember if this is out of his camera or mine. Either way, it was a great day and beautiful music.
Tags: Africa, Church, Faith, Tim Frakes Productions, Travel, Uganda, Video
2011 Year in Review: Frakesproductions.com
Posted by timfrakes | Filed under Interesting People, Interesting Places, Tim Frakes Productions, Travel
Here is a random collection representing a few of the images I recorded during the busy 2011 production year. Locations included Haiti (twice), Cuba, Dominican Republic, Illinois, Texas, Colorado, Kentucky, Missouri, Indiana, and Ohio. Music by JS Bach, Mass in B minor Dona nobis pacem (BWV 232).
For more detail, here are links to most of work I did this year.
- People of Faith: Christianity in America
- Church World Service, Haiti
- Ascension Catholic School, Oak Park, IL
- Herald of Truth Image Video
- Rural Community Assistance Partnership
- Bethesda Lutheran Communities
- Lutheran Life Communities, Gifts of Grace
- West Chicago Printing Company 100 Years
- Haitian Artist for Peace International
- The Bread Shed
- St. Stephen Martyr Lutheran Church, Canton, OH
- Alianza Church, Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
- Simply Fragrant, Christian and Missionary Alliance
- Herald of Truth Cuba churches of Christs
- 30 Good Minutes Spiritual Journeys
Tags: Dona nobis pacem, Tim Frakes Productions, Travel, Video
Introducing Jesus of Nazareth
Posted by timfrakes | Filed under Award winning video, Education, Faith Based Production, History, Interesting Places, Middle East, Travel
It is Advent and a good time to reflect on the life of Jesus. This production aired on ABC Television in December 2006. I produced it for the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America with my good friend Peter Marty as host. Jim Quattrocki directed the on-camera sequences. Jim Parks did the editing.
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Tags: Bible, Gospel, Holyland, Jerusalem, Jesus, New Testament, Peter Marty
Images from Mizak, Haiti
Posted by timfrakes | Filed under Carribean, Interesting Places, Tim Frakes Productions, Travel
Here is a collection of images from my visit to Mizak, Haiti in 2011 with Haitian Artists for Peace International. The music is performed by a group of guys who were jamming by the side of the road.
Tags: Haiti, Tim Frakes Productions, Travel, Video
Tour a Cold War Era Atlas Missile Silo
Posted by timfrakes | Filed under Education, Interesting Places, Tim Frakes Productions, Travel
Along a lonely stretch of blacktop in rural, Central Texas, my friend Larry Sanders takes me on a tour of a partially restored Atlas missile site.
At the height of the Cold War, Curtis Lamay and the Strategic Air Command, built and deployed the first Intercontinental Ballistic Missile System.
Tags: Abilene, Atlas Missile, Cold War, Silo, Texas, Tim Frakes Productions, Video
A Late Autumn Walk
Posted by timfrakes | Filed under Interesting Places, Nature, Tim Frakes Productions, Travel
A late autumn walk through Hidden Lake Forest Preserve, Du Page County, Illinois. Panasonic Lumix GF3, 720p
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Tags: Illinois, Nature, Tim Frakes Productions, Travel, Video
Empowering Haiti: Let’s Hear it from the Girls
Posted by timfrakes | Filed under Carribean, Education, Faith Based Production, Interesting Places, News, Peace and Justice, Pro Bono, Tim Frakes Productions, Travel, women
It’s back to Haiti in August. This time, I’ll be shooting footage for Haitian Artisans for Peace International (HAPI). HAPI was founded in March 2007 as a fair trade artisan co-op focused on spirituality and creativity. The marketing of the resulting art supports women’s economic development and empowerment.
HAPI Executive Director, Valerie Mossman-Celestin and my friend, photo journalist, Paul Jeffrey asked me to help with this project. The footage will be woven into a short documentary. “Let’s Hear it from the Girls” (working title) will connect the voice of girls in a rural Haitian community to touch us with stories, music and dance that convey the joys and challenges of growing up female in Haiti. The film will also capture the subtle messages of hope emerging from a dream that the community recognize the value and equality of girls and women.
We will be working in Mizak, a mountainous, rural section of La Vallee in South-East Haiti, 80 km south of Port-au-Prince and 12 km west of Jacmel. The total population is just over 35,000. Seventy percent are peasants living under the poverty level of less than $1 US per day, and 63% of the population is under the age of 18. There are no jobs available, no electricity, no telecommunication system, no plumbing, and no water filtration. The majority of households have no measurable income and they rely on system of barter and trade.
HAPI plans to make this DVD available as a teaching resource to folks in the United Methodist Church. The project is funded in part through a grant from the United Methodist Women’s organization.
Look for more in the coming days and weeks!
Tags: Haiti, Tim Frakes Productions, Travel, women
Flight to Bukoba Tanzania
Posted by timfrakes | Filed under Africa, Education, Tim Frakes Productions, Travel
Wednesday, May 23, 2001 Jim Quattrocki, Kevin Jacobson and I arrive at an air strip in Moshi, Tanzania and board a single engine, fixed landing gear plane operated by African Inland Mission. Andy, the pilot, is a tall, slender American from Boulder, Colorado. It rained the night before – now the clouds began to lift and we took off, flying around Mt. Kilimanjaro and her more rugged sister Mt. Meru. We then head out over the world famous Serengeti Plain, Ngorongoro Crater and Odoval Gorge.
The ancient green grasslands are dotted with huts and animals. The route takes us west across the Serengeti to the southern tip of Lake Victoria, the source of the Nile River and on in to Bukoba, Tanzania on the western shore.
Tags: Africa, African Inland Missions, Bukoba Tanzania, Tim Frakes Productions, Travel
Havana Cuba
Posted by timfrakes | Filed under Carribean, Culture, History, Interesting Places, Tim Frakes Productions, Travel
Recorded these shots while in Havana, Cuba, March, 2011.
Tags: Cuba, Havana, Tim Frakes Productions, Travel, Video
Alianza Church, Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
Posted by timfrakes | Filed under Carribean, Evangelism and Outreach, Faith Based Production, Interesting Places, Pro Bono, Tim Frakes Productions, Travel, women
Zac and Julie Stutler work with the Christian and Missionary Alliance in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. The Stutler’s and another husband/wife team, Jeff and Deborah Climie, launched a new congregation in this upscale resort community called Alianza. While recording footage for a project with the Alliance Women Ministries, I was able to put this video together for them.
Tags: Alianza, Church, Dominican Republic, Punta Cana, Tim Frakes Productions, Video, women