Iraqi Voices Amplification Project
Posted by timfrakes | Filed under Causes, Faith Based Production, Middle East, Peace and Justice, Politics, Travel
In October 2009, a small group of artists-photographers, filmmakers, musicians, and new media specialists traveled to Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria with Intersections International to meet and interact with displaced Iraqi refugees and to hear their stories.
(Short Version 7:38)
(Long Version 16:00 ) (Turn off the HD button if you experience buffering issues.)
Tags: Iraq, Middle East, Refugee, Tim Frakes Productions, Video
Together in Mission 2010
Posted by timfrakes | Filed under Capital Campaign, Evangelism and Outreach, Faith Based Production, Tim Frakes Productions
This is a video I produced for the Florida-Bahamas Synod of the ELCA for their 2010 Synod Assembly through Kairos and Associates. The family and I (minus Emily who is away at college) toured Florida for a week; Naples to Fort Lauderdale, Port St. Lucie to Clearwater. They played while I recorded stories of mission and ministry. I did manage a sunset in Naples and 6 holes of golf in Port St. Lucie! Here are the results.
Tags: ELCA, Florida Bahamas Synod, Lutheran, Tim Frakes Productions, Video
Faith in Action: Salem Lutheran, Glendale, CA
Posted by timfrakes | Filed under Capital Campaign, Client Production, Tim Frakes Productions
This is a video I produced as part of a capital campaign to renovate and redesign the church and school campus at Salem Lutheran in Glendale, California. Kairos, a national Christian resource development firm recommended me for the job. During production I stayed at the home of Salem members Bob and Chris Watson. Their daughter Sarah serves as the narrator.
Tags: Church, ELCA, Lutheran, Tim Frakes Productions, Video
Together in Mission: Haiti
Posted by timfrakes | Filed under Uncategorized
There is a new Lutheran Church in Haiti. The Evangelical Lutheran Church in Haiti is a growing body of believers with 12 congregations scattered across Haiti. The Florida-Bahamas Synod of the ELCA asked me to put this video together for the 2010 Synod Assembly.
Tags: ELCA, Faith, Florida Bahamas Synod, Haiti, Tim Frakes Productions, Travel, Video
Clearing Rubble, Redemption Lutheran, Carrefour, Haiti
Posted by timfrakes | Filed under Carribean, Disaster, News, Tim Frakes Productions
Members of Redemption Lutheran Church in Carrefour, Haiti gather to clear rubble from their destroyed church building. The structure collapsed during the January 12, 2010 earthquake that hit Haiti. Fortunately, no one was in the building when it collapsed.
Tags: Church, Faith, Florida Bahamas Synod, Haiti, Lutheran, Tim Frakes Productions, Travel, Video
Eskimo Testimonies
Posted by timfrakes | Filed under Faith Based Production, Interesting Places, Spiritual Journey, Travel
Every now and then, I think back on a visit Jim Quattrocki, Bob Elliott and I made to Alaska’s Seward Peninsula in September, 1994. Eskimo Testimonies is a 7-minute video we produced for Mosaic, the video magazine of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.
We spent 12 days touring Eskimo villages like Brevig Mission, Wales and Shishmaref, meeting its people and recording their stories.
Tags: Alaska, Education, ELCA, Eskimo, Seward Peninsula, Spiritual Journey, Tim Frakes Productions, Video
Celebrating Three Years in Business!
Posted by timfrakes | Filed under News, Tim Frakes Productions
Camped out on the roof at the LWF office in Pétionville, Haiti, two weeks after the earthquake.March 28, 2010 marks the three-year anniversary of Tim Frakes Productions. Had I known three years ago that the global economy was going to tank and the U.S. would plunge into it’s deepest economic recession since the 1930’s I probably would have stayed put. Thank God for my ignorance!
Today there are six of us in the company; Me, Myself and I, the Father, Son and Holy Ghost. (The second three get along perfectly!) This business is a blur of activity, productivity and wonderful memories. My clients are abundant, faithful and ask me to do meaningful work. I’ve produced video productions in Haiti, Kenya, Uganda, Ethiopia, the West Bank, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and dozens of places across the United States.
Almost all of my work has been with non-profit, faith-based organizations. That’s a good thing because that’s where my passion and sense of calling rests.
To family and friends who gave encouragement and advice during the planning stages of this venture, and who continue to be supportive, I say “Thank you!”
To great clients like 30 Good Minutes, Moody Radio, Lutheran Life Communities, Herald of Truth, the ELCA, it’s synod and congregations, Kairos Christian Resource Development, Mount Mary College and Wheaton College, I also say “Thank you!”
Tags: Tim Frakes Productions, Video
Religion and Ethics Weekly: Haiti
Posted by timfrakes | Filed under Carribean, Disaster
At the Haiti/Dominican Republic border, I ran into Gail Fendley a producer with Religion & Ethics Weekly on PBS. Gail and her crew were producing a story on relief work from the Dominican side of the border. We exchanged business cards and I was able to share footage I recorded in Haiti which they used in this story.
Tags: Haiti, Tim Frakes Productions, Video
Haiti, Three Weeks After: Chris Herlinger Reports
Posted by timfrakes | Filed under Carribean, Disaster, News, Tim Frakes Productions
My friend Chris Herlinger from Church World Service and I produced this story in Port Au Prince, Haiti, three weeks after the January 2010 earthquake.
Port Au Prince, Haiti
February, 2010
by Chris Herlinger
In the nearly three weeks since the catastrophic Jan. 12 earthquake, Haiti feels like a desert bereft of much that makes for a dignified life.
Port-au-Princes downtown area, hit hardest by quake, still looks and feels as if the disaster happened just days ago. The smell of rotting flesh wafts through the air, and the sides of some buildings look as if they are ready to fall into the street at any moment.
It is startling to see a building cut in half, office chairs and desks, filing cabinets and sinks suddenly exposed to the harsh midday sunlight just as it is to see thousands of people, suddenly displaced, living in the makeshift displacement camps within and outside the capital city
Yet the capacity of Haitians to embrace elements of normalcy is encouraging beyond words. That means dressing in your Sunday best to attend church or offering a hand to neighbors or visitors.
The international community continues its role in providing humanitarian assistance to Haiti an effort that by all accounts was slow in starting and is still not seamless, given the many challenges that
faced Haiti before and immediately following the quake.
Tags: Haiti, Tim Frakes Productions, Video
Faithful Travel with Rick Steves
Posted by timfrakes | Filed under Faith Based Production, Travel
My friend Rick Steves is on the cover of the February Christian Century. Check out his interview and then check out the video I did with him a while back titled: Faithful Travel. The video links Rick’s travel philosophy with his faith.
Tags: ELCA, Rick Steves, Tim Frakes Productions, Travel, Video