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Award-winning video students hired by Lynch Foundation Many students, including those who have won awards for their videos, have recently been hired by a foundation associated with famous filmmaker and University Trustee David Lynch to produce documentaries that will showcase the effects of the Transcendental Meditation programme in the lives of students, artists, and others. The films will be a major component of a forthcoming website called DavidLynchFoundation.tv, which will come online this fall. The launch of this website will coincide with the theatrical release of Dr. Lynch's new film, tentatively titled Catching the Big Fish: The Documentary. This movie is a documentary of his tour throughout Europe and Israel last fall, during which he spoke to large audiences and government officials about the Transcendental Meditation technique, consciousness, and creativity. The title of the movie comes from Dr. Lynch's similarly titled best-selling book that was published early last year. The new website will be prominently featured at the end of the film and in all promotional materials for the film. The students hired include Geoff Boothby and Cullen Thomas, who collaborated on the award-winning short film We Are Theo, and who recently premiered their 90-minute feature film titled Wormtooth Nation. Also being hired is Amine Kouider, who recently won a top award from the Iowa Motion Picture Association for his documentary about an Algerian artist. Zach Nichols is being hired to design and develop the website. Many more students and recent graduates will also be involved, including Puki Freeberg, Stephen Cardinal, and Julia Ross. The mission of the new website is, in Dr. Lynch's words, 'celebrating consciousness, creativity, and bliss'. A main component will be documenting the success of the programmes in dozens of schools in the US and internationally that have been sponsored by the David Lynch Foundation for Consciousness-Based Education and World Peace, and that have introduced the Transcendental Meditation technique. In addition, the documentaries will profile students who practice the Transcendental Meditation technique, with a strong focus on those from the community of Fairfield, Iowa, USA. They will also document many other facets of the Transcendental Meditation technique, including the research. DavidLynchFoundation.tv will hold regular film, painting, sculpture, and photography competitions, with the winners receiving scholarships to learn the Transcendental Meditation technique. This new enterprise will be headquartered in Fairfield. 'David is very excited about it and will be very much directly involved in everything,' said Bob Roth, vice president of the David Lynch Foundation. 'He sees DLF.tv as a portal to bring millions of young people in America and around the world to the Transcendental Meditation technique and Maharishi's programmes.' © Copyright 2008 Global Good News®
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