Point and Shoot

POINT AND SHOOT follows Matt VanDyke, a timid 26-year-old with obsessive compulsive disorder, who left home in Baltimore in 2006 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 this harrowing and sometimes humorous story of a young man’s struggle for political revolution and personal transformation.

Grade: A "The tale told in Point and Shoot is a virtual swashbuckler... a subtle, but nonetheless eloquent critique not just of one man's compulsions, but a culture's." -John Anderson, Indiewire

"Potent... An eye-opening tale... allowing viewers access not only to the mind of a revolutionary but of a revolution." -Steven Zeitchik, Los Angeles Times