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Release Date: 2012

Categories: Movies, Documentary, Culture & Society, Biography, Crime Fiction, Law & Crime, Social Issues

The Dhamma Brothers is a documentary film released in 2007 about a prison meditation program at Donaldson Correctional Facility near Bessemer, Alabama. The film concentrates on four inmates, all convicted of murder. It also includes interviews of guards, prison officials, and local residents. It includes reenactments of the inmates' crimes. Music for the film is by Low, New Order and Sigur Rós. The film has been compared to an earlier documentary, released in 1997, titled Doing Time, Doing Vipassana. That film documented a large scale meditation program at Tihar Prisons in India with over... MORE

The Dhamma Brothers is a documentary film released in 2007 about a prison meditation program at Donaldson Correctional Facility near Bessemer, Alabama. The film concentrates on four inmates, all convicted of murder. It also includes interviews of guards, prison officials, and local residents. It includes reenactments of the inmates' crimes. Music for the film is by Low, New Order and Sigur Rós. The film has been compared to an earlier documentary, released in 1997, titled Doing Time, Doing Vipassana. That film documented a large scale meditation program at Tihar Prisons in India with over a thousand inmates using the same meditation retreat format. The film is directed by Jenny Phillips, a cultural anthropologist and psychotherapist, Andrew Kukura, a documentary filmmaker, and Anne Marie Stein, a film-school administrator. Phillips also released a book in late 2008 based on followup letters with the inmates, titled Letters from the Dhamma Brothers: Meditation Behind Bars (ISBN 1-92870-631-2). Director Jenny Phillips was largely responsible for the meditation program's inception at the prison. Phillips had previously studied prison culture in Massachusetts. In 1999, she heard that LESS