Point and Shoot Feature Trailer (2014)

Feature trailer for the documentary Point and Shoot.

Winner of the Best Documentary Award at the Tribeca Film Festival, Point and Shoot follows Matt VanDyke, a timid 26-year-old with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, who left home in Baltimore in 2006 and bought a motorcycle and a video camera & 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 & personal transformation.

Matthew Vandyke received media attention long before this documentary. Vandyke was behind Not Anymore: A Story of Revolution, a documentary created specifically to improve world opinion of the Syrian rebel forces in the Syrian Civil War and encourage the international community to support them.