Marshall Curry talks about his film "Point and Shoot"
Two time Oscar nominated documentary filmmaker, Marshall Curry came Center Stage to talk about his new film POINT AND SHOOT, an outrageous, harrowing and occasionally humorous story of Matt VanDyke’s charge into adulthood, albeit one that involves a 35,000 motorcycle trip and the joining of an armed struggle against Muammar Gaddafi. While trying to be of service to his revolutionary fellows, VanDyke managed to shoot with both a gun and a camera.
The interview originally aired Tuesday, November 4, 2014
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MORE ABOUT POINT AND SHOOT
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 this harrowing and sometimes humorous story of a young man’s struggle for political revolution and personal transformation.
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