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Point and Shoot is a american film of genre Documentary directed by Marshall Curry released in USA on 19 april 2014

Point and Shoot (2014)

Point and Shoot
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Released in USA 19 april 2014
Length 1h22
Directed by
OriginUSA
Rating67% 3.394323.394323.394323.394323.39432

Point and Shoot is a documentary film written and directed by two-time Academy Award nominee Marshall Curry. It was produced by Marshall Curry, Elizabeth Martin and Matthew VanDyke.

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Point and Shoot tells the story of Matthew VanDyke, a sheltered 26-year-old who left his Baltimore home and set off on a self-described “crash course in manhood.” While on a 35,000-mile motorcycle trip through Northern Africa and the Middle East, he struck up an unlikely friendship with a Libyan hippie. When revolution broke out in Libya, VanDyke decided to join his friend in the fight against dictator Muammar Gaddafi. With a gun in one hand and a camera in the other, VanDyke joined and documented the war until he was captured by Gaddafi forces and held for six months in solitary confinement.

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