Good morning from the Yellowstone River Valley in East Central Montana near Hysham. We are here with the Rural Community Assistance Partnership (RCAP) recording a story about rural infrastructure and clean drinking water. RCAP serves rural communities across the United States beginning at the tap.
My office this week. The Ohio River overlooking Glen Dale, West Virginia for the Rural Community Assistance Partnership.
Greetings all. Tim, with Frakes Productions.
Join us Friday evening under the Stars for the outdoor premiere of the Secrets of Hidden Lake, the story of the DuPage County's Hidden Lake Forest Preserve.
For 30 years, my family and I have lived across the road from the DuPage County Forest Preserve's Hidden Lake. I've trekked nearly every inch. And on my walks, I became curious about the people who lived here in the past, the indigenous people, the homesteaders, the Wheat King, and a gambling czar. The more I learned, the more I began to appreciate this sacred public trust, and I hope you will too.
Secrets of Hidden Lake Premier Friday, September 6, 7:30 p.m.
Glen Briar Park at the Butterfield Park District.
Free registration, limited seating.
Go to Lombard Historical Society to register.
(Can't make it? No problem. The full 53 minute documentary will be available on YouTube following the live premier event at the Butterfield Park District.) Watch following the premier! Secrets of Hidden Lake, 9:00 p.m. central, September 6, 2024.
Hi, I'm Tim Frakes. For 30 years, my family and I have lived across the road from the DuPage County Forest Preserve's Hidden Lake. I've trekked nearly every square inch. And on my walks, I became curious about the people who lived here in the past, the indigenous people, the homesteaders, the wheat king, and a gambling czar. The more I learned about their stories, the more I began to appreciate this sacred public trust, and I hope you will too.
Join us under the Stars for the outdoor premiere of the Secrets of Hidden Lake, the story of the DuPage County's Hidden Lake Forest Preserve.
Friday, September 6, 7:30 p.m.
Glen Briar Park at the Butterfield Park District.
Registration is free, seating is limited.
Go to lombardhistory.org to register.
Greetings all. Tim, with Frakes Productions. After six years of on-again, off-again work, we finally finished our new documentary with the Lombard Historical Society. The Secrets of Hidden Lake, tells the epic story of the Forest Preserve of DuPage County’s Hidden Lake Forest Preserve from the time of the Potawatomi People through the homesteaders, a man known as the Wheat King, a gangster and truck farm and finally a sacred private/public trust we know today as Hidden Lake Forest Preserve.
Details on distribution are forthcoming.
The first half of 2024 has been with many other video projects including Livestreams, public celebrations, and marketing videos for organizations across the theological, social, economic and political spectrum.
It remains a privilege to serve our many clients and tell their stories. Tim Frakes Productions Inc. Documentary and image video for non-profit, faith-based, broadcast and corporate clients.
Covering a press conference and an Accelerated Moving Event at St. Sabina Church for AllChicago.org today. An (AME) connects property partners with tenants and supplies rental assistance as needed.
Welcome to Sanctuary. As American churches experience a rapidly changing religious landscape, mainline seminaries such as Catholic Theological Union, the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago and McCormick Theological Seminary are adapting to prepare future church leaders to meet new challenges and opportunities to carry out God’s mission.
Join us for a groundbreaking new approach to education that’s unfolding in three distinct Chicago seminaries united in a groundbreaking collaboration.
It's a conversation that will challenge what you think, about the future of the faith, community and theological education, on the next Sanctuary.
Watch Sanctuary, every Sunday in June at noon, on ABC's Localish Network in Chicago.
All packed up for one of two simultaneous livestreams this week. The second package is already loaded.
“And now I must confess
I could use some rest
I can't run at this pace very long
Yes it's quite insane
Think I hurt my brain
But it cleans me out, then I can go on”
- Trying to Reason With Hurricane Season, Jimmy Buffett
Solar Eclipse from Babcock's Grove House, downtown Lombard, 4.8.24 Panasonic AF-100, Nikkor 300 mm f 4.5 Tim Frakes Productions Inc.
Recording a new video for Chicago No Limits Fishing, a non profit that provides accessible fishing opportunities for people with disabilities. Shawn Sloan, a senior member of the University of Illinois Wheelchair basketball team seen here cheering on children in a Chicago Park District wheelchair basketball practice, recently experienced a fishing trip on Lake Michigan and shared his story.
Tim Frakes Productions is a full service video production and post-production company based in Lombard, Illinois.
We produce award winning documentaries, multi camera broadcast and livestream events including concerts, worship events and business meetings, internal corporate messaging, development videos, marketing videos for major pharmaceutical and, research institutions, medical equipment, manufacturing, and the real estate industry.
We also produce live audience training presentations, instructional videos in the manufacturing and healthcare industries, commercial television and social media spots and a wide range of testimonials.
Our production and post equipment and software are broadcast quality and allow us to meet a wide range of client needs using proper tools of the video production trade.
Tim Frakes Productions began in 2007 and our client list is long and always growing. Quotes are free, references are abundant. Tim Frakes Productions Inc. Documentary and image video for non-profit, faith-based, broadcast and corporate clients.
Happy December! Tim with Frakes Productions.com
Travel, I’ve had my share, man. 2023 was perhaps our busiest. I’m thinking the post-pandemic reality prompted our non-profit, faith-based, broadcast and corporate clients to make up for lost ground.
22 different clients and more individual videos than I can count.
Here’s a brief rundown.
The Rural Community Assistance Partnership led the way with stories and events in New Mexico, Texas, Florida, Michigan, Ohio New Hampshire, Boston, Mass, and Washington D.C.
Father Bob Miller, my spouse Julie and I did a deep Civil War dive with Faith of the Fathers, a new Documentary with the Kenosha, Wisconsin Civil War Museum that took us back in time to Tennessee, Alabama and Mississippi.
The Christian Fellowship Community had me back in Rural Texas, Louisville, Kentucky and Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Here at home, The Islamic Foundation of Villa Park, Illinois honored me with a commission to tell the story of their 50th anniversary in what has become one of the largest and most influential Muslim American organizations in the United States.
Lombard, Illinois brand new Helen Plum Library opened this year and I was asked to document it all.
The Chicago Bible Society, Pure Processing, The Chicago Rehab Network, Hephzibah Children’s Association, The Law Center for Better Housing, Chicago Theological Seminary, Catholic Theological Union, McCormick Theological Seminary and All Chicago, a new client that seeks to end homelessness, all asked me to tell their stories.
And then it was Lutheran, Lutheran Lutheran! Lutheran Social Services of Illinois kept me really busy with a wide variety of stories and events as they serve Illinois’ most vulnerable populations. Lutheran Services in America asked us to cover a large Gathering at Bethel New Life in Chicago, and last but not least, the Lutheran School of Theology made their big move into new digs and I was there to cover it all.
Thank you to each and every on
