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
Food Distribution Gone Bad
Posted by timfrakes | Filed under Carribean, Disaster
Here is what it looks like when a food and tent distribution goes bad. This scene was recorded in Gressier, a village about 20 km outside Port Au Prince, two weeks after the 2010 Earthquake.
Tags: Haiti, Tim Frakes Productions, Video
Brookfield Zoo, Holiday Magic
Posted by timfrakes | Filed under Culture, Education, Interesting Places, Nature, Tim Frakes Productions, Travel
Each December, the Brookfield Zoo, Brookfield, Illinois hosts Holiday Magic, a festival of lights, ice and animals.
Tags: Brookfield Zoo, Holiday Magic, Tim Frakes Productions, Video
Moody Radio Testimonials
Posted by timfrakes | Filed under Faith Based Production, Spiritual Journey, Tim Frakes Productions
My friend Bruce Everhart asked me to help tell the story of Moody Radio by recording a series of testimonials with listeners and on-air staff. Moody Radio owns and operates 35 radio stations with a Christian perspective on the news, interactive talk, teaching and inspirational music.
In Chicago we interviewed Anita Lustrea and Melinda Schmidt, co-hosts of Midday Connection, Greg Wheatley, host of Prime Time America and Sound of Majesty, and Mike Kellogg host of Music thru the Night.
Then, Bruce and I took a road trip to Indianapolis, Indiana and Chattanooga, Tennessee where we interview Howard at his Transport for Christ trailer at a truck stop off of I-65. In Chattanooga we interviewed Dale, a man who came to faith in Christ in prison through the help of Moody Radio.
To view the video’s please click on the video screen. This will take to to the Moody Radio Share site where you can video the testimonials.
Tags: Radio, Tim Frakes Productions, Video
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
Honoring Veterans
Posted by timfrakes | Filed under History, Spiritual Journey
Here are two short videos I produced this year while working on separate projects for Lutheran Life Communities and the Northwest Synod of Wisconsin (ELCA) Book of Faith Initiative. Both stories reference the everyday heroism, faith, fear and loss experienced by veterans of every generation. Nick Zanini served in Europe during World War II. James Homme served in Korea.
Tags: Faith, History, Tim Frakes Productions, Veterans, Video