(PCM) In Marshall Curry’s documentary Point and Shoot, a man embarks on a journey to discover himself and ends up in some very unexpected situations; Point and Shoot opens in select theaters November 14, 2014.
Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the 2014 Tribeca Film Festival, Point and Shoot chronicles the journey of Matthew VanDyke, a timid 27-year-old who leaves his home in Baltimore and sets off on a self-described “crash course in manhood” through the Middle East.
The film begins in 2007, when VanDyke, armed with a video camera, embarks on a 35,000-mile motorcycle trip through Northern Africa and the Middle East. While traveling, he strikes up an unlikely friendship with a Libyan hippie, and when revolution breaks out in Libya, Matt joins his friend in the fight against dictator Muammar Gaddafi.
With a gun in one hand and a camera in the other, Matt fights in — and films — the war until he is captured by Gaddafi forces and held in solitary confinement for six months.
Two-time Academy Award nominated documentary filmmaker Marshall Curry (Street Fight, If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front) tells this harrowing and sometimes humorous story of a young man’s struggle for political revolution and personal transformation.
Point and Shoot currently has a fresh rating of 100% on Rotten Tomatoes. John Anderson of indieWIRE wrote “Via his subject’s idiosyncracies… Curry starts to weave a subtle, but nonetheless eloquent critique not just of one man’s compulsions, but a culture’s.”
Watch the trailer for Point and Shoot below and visit the official website for more info!
Point and Shoot opens in select theaters November 14, 2014.
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