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The Dhamma Brothers is a documentary film released in 2007 about a prison meditation program at Donaldson Correctional Facility near Bessemer, Alabama. The film features four inmates, all convicted of murder, and includes interviews with guards, prison officials, local residents and other inmates, and reenactments of their crimes. The soundtrack includes music by Low, New Order and Sigur Rós.
The film was directed by Jenny Phillips, a cultural anthropologist and psychotherapist, Andrew Kukura, a documentary filmmaker, and Anne Marie Stein, a film-school administrator. In 2008 Phillips released Letters from the Dhamma Brothers: Meditation Behind Bars (ISBN 1-92870-631-2), a book based on follow-up letters with the inmates.
The Dhamma Brothers has been compared with another documentary, Doing Time, Doing Vipassana (released in 1997), which documented a large scale meditation program at Tihar Prisons in India with over a thousand inmates using the same meditation retreat format.
Original Release
01/31/2007
US Release
01/31/2007
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Grady Bankhead | Self / himself |
Ron Cavanaugh | Self / himself |
Jonathan Crowley | Self / himself |
Edward Johnson | Self |
Ben Oryang | Self |
Rick Smith | Self |
Bruce Stewart | Self |
Directors
Anne Marie Stein, Andrew Kukura, Jenny Phillips
Cast
Name | Character |
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Grady Bankhead | Self / himself |
Ron Cavanaugh | Self / himself |
Jonathan Crowley | Self / himself |
Edward Johnson | Self |
Ben Oryang | Self |
Rick Smith | Self |
Bruce Stewart | Self |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Anne Marie Stein | Executive Producer |
Bestor Cram | Executive Producer |
Geralyn White Dreyfous | Executive Producer |
Nicole Guillemet | Executive Producer |
Jenny Phillips | Executive Producer |
Peter Broderick | Producer |