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The Dhamma Brothers
| Rating: | No Rating |
| Genre: | Documentary |
| Release Date: | April 11, 2008 |
| Running time: | 76 minutes |
| Cast: | Jenny Phillips, Andy Kukura, Anne Marie Stein, Bestor Cram, Geralyn Dreyfus |
| Director: | Jenny Phillips, Anne Marie Stein, Andrew Kukura |
| Producer: | Jenny Phillips, Anne Marie Stein, Peter Broderick |
| Writer: | Jenny Phillips, Anne Marie Stein, Andrew Kukura |
| Distributor: | Balcony Releasing |
Description: East meets West in the Deep South. An overcrowded maximum-security prison--the end of the line in Alabama's correctional system--is dramatically changed by the influence of an ancient meditation program. Behind high security towers and a double row of barbed wire and electrical fence dwells a host of convicts who will never see the light of day. But for some of these men, a spark is ignited when it becomes the first maximum-security prison in North America to hold an extended Vipassana retreat, an emotionally and physically demanding course of silent meditation lasting ten days. "The Dhamma Brothers" tells a dramatic tale of human potential and transformation as it closely follows and documents the stories of the prison inmates at Donaldson Correction Facility who enter into this arduous and intensive program.
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