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10/02/2018 GMT

Point and Shoot

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 A young man's search for political revolution and personal transformation.

A film telling the harrowing and sometimes humorous story of a young man's search for political revolution and personal transformation.

Emmy nominee and winner of the Best Documentary Award at the Tribeca Film Festival, POINT AND SHOOT tells the story of Matthew VanDyke, a timid 26-year-old with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, who left home in Baltimore USA, and set off on a self-described "crash course in manhood." He bought a motorcycle and a video camera and began a multi-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 this harrowing and sometimes humorous story of a young man's search for political revolution and personal transformation.

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