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Title The Dhamma brothers [DVD videorecording] / 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.
Publication Info. [Concord, Mass.] : Freedom Behind Bars Productions, [2010]
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 Orlando Public Library (Downtown) - Library Central  DVD 365.665 DHA    Check Shelves
Edition Collector's ed. ; full screen
Description 1 videodisc (76 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
System Details DVD, standard (1.33.1) presentation; Dolby Digital, all regions.
Note English dialogue with optional English or Spanish subtitles.
Original film, c2007.
Credits Edited by Andrew Kukura.
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.
Note Special features include 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, and the theatrical trailer.
Awards 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.
Audience Not rated.
Subject 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.
Added Author Phillips, Jenny, Ph. D.
Kukura, Andrew.
Stein, Anne Marie.
Freedom Behind Bars Productions.
Lionheart Foundation (Boston, Mass.)
Note Subtitle on menu screen, disc surface, container : Dhamma brothers : East meets West in the deep South
ISBN 013964155402
Standard No. 013964155402 : $24.99
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