Carrie Newcomer – 30 Good Minutes, Spiritual Journey
Posted by timfrakes | Filed under Chicago Sunday Evening Club, Faith Based Production, Interesting People, Music, Peace and Justice, Spiritual Journey, Tim Frakes Productions, women
This is a spiritual journey I produced for 30 Good Minutes, WTTW Channel 11, PBS, Chicago. Singer and songwriter, Carrie Newcomer, drawn to the social justice and peace focus of the Quakers, writes songs about the sacred in the ordinary things of life.
Tags: Faith, Music, Peace, Tim Frakes Productions, women
Ransomed Son
Posted by timfrakes | Filed under Middle East, Peace and Justice, Tim Frakes Productions
The greatest fear for many Iraqi refugees is receiving news that a loved one has been kidnapped back home in Iraq. Iraqi Voices Amplification Project
Tags: frakes, Iraq, Justice, Middle East, Peace, Tim Frakes Productions, Video
Peace Not Walls: Making a Difference in the Holy Land
Posted by timfrakes | Filed under Award winning video, Client Production, Faith Based Production, Interesting Places, Middle East, News, Peace and Justice, Tim Frakes Productions, Travel
Tim Frakes Productions has won a DeRose-Hinkhouse Memorial Award of Excellence from the Religion Communicators council for “Peace Not Walls: Making a Difference in the Holy Land. The video was produced for the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America “Peace Not Walls” Campaign. Carol LaHurd, the ELCA’s Peace Not Walls coordinator and I worked on this project with help from Ben McDonald Coltvet, Barbara Berry Bailey and others.
The video was recorded on location in Jerusalem, and the West Bank and outlines the ELCA’s strategy for peace in the Middle East and accompaniment with Palestinian Christians.
The DeRose-Hinkhouse Memorial Awards are presented annually to members of the RCC who demonstrate excellence in religion communications and public relations.
Tags: Holyland, Israel, Justice, Middle East, Palestine, Peace, Wall, West Bank
Holy Land in the Shadow of War
Posted by timfrakes | Filed under Education, Interesting Places, Middle East, Non-Profit, Peace and Justice, Spiritual Journey, Tim Frakes Productions, Travel
This holiday season found me in the Holy Land. I was invited by a friend, Kathy Adam, to tag along as she lead a group of Minnesota pilgrims on a visit to Jerusalem, Bethlehem and other places in Israel and the West Bank.
It was a wonderful opportunity to make new friends, visit with old friends and experience life for average people during a time of war. While never in any personal danger, we did experience the war in Gaza through the eyes of many Palestinian families.
The following video is a compilation of footage and interviews I recorded during our time in the Holy Land. For more on the trip visit a web site I built:
3 Faiths, 2 Countries, 1 Peace
Tags: Bethlehem, Jerusalem, Justice, Middle East, Peace, Pilgrimage
ELCA News Release: Uganda: Ready to Forgive
Posted by timfrakes | Filed under Africa, Award winning video, Faith Based Production, Peace and Justice
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, torture and child abduction, rebels known as the Lord’s Resistance Army forced two million people into internally displaced person camps. Yet, the Acholi people are united in a belief that the only real solution is reconciliation and forgiveness.
“The program was recorded on location in Northern Uganda,” said Tim Frakes, writer and producer, Tim Frakes Productions, Lombard, Ill. “In this story, the Acholi people offer lessons of forgiveness that we can learn from,” Frakes said. “Most stories from Africa emphasize western nations helping Africans,” he said. “This is an example of Africans helping us.”
The host of the program is Immaculee Ilibagiza, a survivor of the Rwandan genocide of 1994 and author of “Left to Tell: Discovering God amidst the Rwandan Holocaust.”
“The Acholi people of Northern Uganda have been through so much and to be able to capture this amazing story of forgiveness and reconciliation was truly a blessing. Now our task is to bring their story to a wider audience,” said Ava Odom Martin, director for public media, ELCA Communication Services.
“If the Acholi people can forgive the Lord’s Resistance Army for the torture and massacre brought upon their community and get on with their lives, then hopefully someone else may be touched by their action
and find forgiveness for an injustice done to them,” said Martin.
The ELCA is one of 35 member communions of the National Council of Churches of Christ U.S.A. (NCC). The NCC is a founding partner of the Interfaith Broadcasting Commission (IBC), which provides television programming to the affiliates of three major broadcast television networks. NBC’s “Horizons of the Spirit” provides four hours per year for documentaries produced by the IBC faith groups.
Martin said “Ready to Forgive” will be available for broadcast through May 31, 2008. “Please contact your local NBC station for specific dates and times in your area,” she said. The production was made possible in part through a grant from Faith and Values Media, she added.
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Information about the television program, “Ready to Forgive: An African Story of Grace,” is at http://www.elca.org/readytoforgive/ on the ELCA Web site and http://www.frakesproductions.com/ on the
Internet.
Tags: Africa, Forgiveness, LRA, Peace, Uganda
Uganda: Ready to Forgive Spot
Posted by timfrakes | Filed under Africa, Peace and Justice, Uncategorized
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 production of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.
Contact your local NBC Affiliate for air dates and times beginning December 2, 2007 through March 1, 2008.
www.frakesproductions.com
Tags: Forgiveness, LRA, Peace, Uganda