David Lynch and Russell Brand Join “Meditation in Education” Global Outreach Campaign

David Lynch and Russell Brand joined forces to help bring Transcendental Meditation to 1,000,000 at-risk youth at the U.S. premiere of Meditation Creativity Peace at the Hammer Museum's Billy Wilder Theater in Los Angeles on Tuesday, April 2. The premiere marked the launch of the "Meditation in Education" global outreach campaign.

"Proceeds from the global distribution of the documentary will be used to help students in the United States and across the world overcome traumatic stress, improve learning ability and raise performance through Transcendental Meditation," said Lynch.

Meditation Creativity Peace is scheduled to premiere in London, Paris, Berlin, Tel Aviv, Johannesburg, Tokyo, Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires, Toronto and other global cities during May and June. The film will also be screened at the Palm Beach International Film Festival in West Palm Beach, FL on Saturday, April 6.

The documentary chronicles Lynch's 16-country tour of European and Middle Eastern film schools in 2007, when he addressed tens of thousands of students about his creative processes, filmmaking and his 40-year practice of Transcendental Meditation.

The Billy Wilder Theater holds nearly 300 people, but more than 1,000 people unexpectedly showed up at the box office. The additional film buffs were able to view the documentary in an overflow hall at the museum and on large outdoor screens mounted in the museum courtyard.

Russell Brand, a four-year meditator, said that TM had helped him overcome his decades-long
addiction to drugs and alcohol. "I have become a better human being through meditation," Brand said.