Point and Shoot

Streaming video - 2014

In 2006, Matt VanDyke, a timid 26-year-old with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, left home in Baltimore and set off on a self-described “crash course in manhood.” He bought a motorcycle and a video camera and began a three-year, 35,000-mile motorcycle trip through Northern Africa and the Middle East. While traveling, he struck up an unlikely friendship with a Libyan hippie, and when revolution broke out in Libya, Matt joined his friend in the fight against dictator Muammar Gaddafi.. With a gun in one hand and a camera in the other, Matt fought in -- and filmed -- the war until he was captured by Gaddafi forces and held in solitary confinement for six months. Two-time Academy Award nominated documentary filmmaker, Marshall Curry, tells thi...s harrowing and sometimes humorous story of a young man’s struggle for political revolution and personal transformation.. Winner of Best Documentary Feature at the Tribeca Film Festival. "A compelling account of an ordinary guy who transformed himself through extraordinary circumstance." - Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News more