Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

The Dhamma brothers / Freedom Behind Bars productions ; produced in association with Northern Light Productions, and the Lionheart Foundation ; directors, Jenny Phillips, Andrew Kukura, Anne Marie Stein ; producers, Jenny Phillips, Anne Marie Stein ; co-producer, Peter Broderick.

Edition:

Collector's ed. ; [Full screen presentation].

Publisher, Date:

[Concord, MA] : Freedom Behind Bars Productions, [2010?]

Description:

1 videodisc (76 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

Summary:

An overcrowded maximum-security prison is dramatically changed by the influence of an ancient meditation program. A dramatic tale of human potential and transformation that closely follows and documents the stories of the prison inmates.

Target Audience Note:

Not rated.

Subjects:

Donaldson Correctional Facility (Bessemer, Ala.)

Prisons -- Alabama.

Meditation -- Buddhism.

Meditation -- Therapeutic use.

Prisoners -- Religious life -- Alabama -- Bessemer.

Criminals -- Rehabilitation.

Vipaśyanā (Buddhism)

Dharma (Buddhism)

Genre:

Documentary films.

Nonfiction films.

Feature films.

Other Author:

Phillips, Jenny (Jenny K.), 1942-2018.

Kukura, Andrew.

Stein, Anne Marie.

Broderick, Peter.

Micheletti, Zachary.

Freedom Behind Bars Productions.

Northern Lights Productions.

Lionheart Foundation (Boston, Mass.)

Other Title:

Subtitle on container: East meets west in the deep south

Notes:

Videodisc release of the documentary motion picture produced in 2007.

Special features; one hour of never-before-seen footage, including personal conversations with the Dhamma Brothers, their families, and the meditation teachers about their lives in prison and Vipassana practices; original theatrical trailer.

Cinematography, Jeremy Leach, Wah Ho Chan; editor, Andrew Kukura; music, Zachary Micheletti.

Grady Bankhead, Ron Cavanaugh, Jonathan Crowley, Edward Johnson.

DVD, NTSC, all regions; aspect ratio 1.33:1 (4:3); Dolby Digital.

In English; optional subtitles in English and Spanish.

Winner, Best documentary: Western Psychological Association, San Francisco Frozen, and Woods Hole Film Festivals ; 2008 Winner, Prevention for a Safer Society Award, National Council on Crime & Delinquency.

Publisher Number:

PRFPRDVD55402D

Other Number:

665093673

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

276328

# Local items in:

1

# System items in:

1

Call Number:

DVD 294.3443 Dhamma b