Point and Shoot

Winner of the Best Documentary Award at the Tribeca Film Festival. Traces an American man on a quest to reinvent himself as a fearless adventurer. Armed with a motorbike and a camera, he travels through Northern Africa and the Middle East and - after befriending a Libyan hippie - joins forces to fight in the Libyan revolution. Directed by two-time Academy Award nominee Marshall Curry (If a Tree Falls, Street Fight).

"At first glance, Matthew VanDyke - a shy Baltimore native with a sheltered upbringing and a tormenting OCD diagnosis - is the last person you’d imagine on the front lines of the 2011 Libyan revolution. But after finishing grad school and escaping the US for "a crash course in manhood," a winding path leads him just there. Motorcycling across North Africa and the Middle East and spending time as an embedded journalist in Iraq, Matthew lands in Libya, forming an unexpected kinship with a group of young men who transform his life. Matthew joins his friends in the rebel army against Gaddafi, taking up arms (and a camera). Along the way, he is captured and held in solitary confinement for six terrifying months." (Tribeca Film Festival)

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