MUM Students Join Lynch Foundation

David Lynch Website to Encourage Filmmakers

David Lynch spoke to students at the 2008 David Lynch Weekend at Maharishi University of Management in Fairfield, Iowa.

Several Maharishi University of Management students, including those who have won awards for their videos, were recently hired by the David Lynch Foundation to produce documentaries that will showcase the effects of the Transcendental Meditation program 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 will coincide with the theatrical release of David 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 students hired include Geoff Boothby and Cullen Thomas, who collaborated on the award-winning short film We Are Theo, http://tinyurl.com/6pd23f, and who recently premiered their 90-minute feature film Wormtooth Nation (http://theskyisfree.com/).

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 (http://tinyurl.com/3u46wd). And Zach Nichols is being hired to design and develop the website.

Many more students and recent grads 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 programs in dozens of schools in the U.S. 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.

“David is very excited about it and will be very much directly involved in everything,” says Bob Roth, vice president of the David Lynch Foundation.

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