Doing Time, Doing Vipassana
Doing Time, Doing Vipassana is a 1997 Israeli independent documentary film project by two women filmmakers from Israel: Ayelet Menahemi and Eilona Ariel.
The film is about the application of the vipassana meditation technique taught by S. N. Goenka to prisoner rehabilitation at Tihar Jail in India( which was reputed to be an exceptionally harsh prison).
The film inspired other correctional facilities such as the North Rehabilitation Facility in Seattle to use Vipassana as a means of rehabilitation.
Kiran
Bedi, former Inspector General of Prisons for New Delhi, appears in the film.
Sujin Boriharnwanaket
Sujin Boriharnwanaket( born 1926) is a Thai Vipassana and Abhidhamma teacher.
She graduated from Triam Udom High School and has published numerous books and articles in Thai and English.
On March 6, 2007 she was given the Outstanding Woman in Buddhism award in Bangkok at the United Nations office.
Ayelet Menahemi
Ayelet Menahemi( born 1963) is an Israeli film director, producer, writer, editor, and actress.
Doing Time for Patsy Cline
Doing Time for Patsy Cline is a 1997 Australian film starring Miranda Otto, Richard Roxburgh, and Matt Day, and directed by Chris Kennedy.
Satan Town
Satan Town is a 1926 American Western film featuring Harry Carey.
Prints of the film have survived.
Matt Corboy
Matt Corboy( born June 4, 1973) is an American actor.
He has appeared in both films and television series.
The Dhamma Brothers
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", a book based on follow- up letters with the inmates.
" The Dhamma Brothers" has been compared with another documentary," Doing Time, Doing Vipassana"( 1997), which documented a large- scale meditation program at Tihar Jail in India with over a thousand inmates using the same meditation retreat format.
George Gallo
George Gallo, Jr.( born 1956) is an American screenwriter, film director, producer, painter and musician.
He is known for writing" Midnight Run" and" 29th Street", and is an accomplished painter in the style of the Pennsylvania Impressionists.
In 1990, he won the coveted Arts for the Parks award, and has had three one- man exhibitions in New York City.
In 2010, he wrote and directed the film" Middle Men" starring Luke Wilson.
He lives in Los Angeles.
Local Color (film)
Local Color is a 2006 American drama film, written and directed by George Gallo and starring Armin Mueller- Stahl, Ray Liotta and Trevor Morgan in the lead role.
It is based on a true story, that of the director/ writer's experience when he was 18.
The character of Nikolai Serov was based on George Cherepov, to whom Gallo had been an apprentice in the 1970s.
Annie Byron
Annie Byron is an AFI Award- winning Australian film, stage, and television actress best known for" Wolf Creek 2 FranMuriel's Wedding", and" Doing Time for Patsy Cline".

Question: Do both films Doing Time, Doing Vipassana and Local Color (Film) have the directors that share the same nationality?
Answer: no