Point and Shoot

Point and Shoot

Tuesday, August 11, 2015 - 7:00pm to 8:30pm
  • Library Hall

A film by Marshall Curry. A special screening during the 2015 Steamboat Springs All Arts Festival.

Winner of the Best Documentary Feature award at the 2014 Tribeca Film Festival.

A feature documentary by two-time Oscar nominee Marshall Curry, Point and Shoot follows Matt VanDyke, a timid 27-year-old with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, who left home in Baltimore in 2006 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. When revolution broke out in Libya, he joined in the fight against Muammar Gaddafi and spent six months in solitary confinement. Curry tells this harrowing and sometimes humorous story of a young man’s search for political revolution and personal transformation.

Run time:  83 min.

This event is a collaboration with POV, PBS' award-winning nonfiction film series.

About POV
POV (a cinema term for "point of view") is television's longest-running showcase for independent non-fiction films. POV premieres 14-16 of the best, boldest and most innovative programs every year on PBS. Since 1988, POV has presented over 300 films to public television audiences across the country. POV films are known for their intimacy, their unforgettable storytelling and their timeliness, putting a human face on contemporary social issues. POV films have won every major film and broadcasting award including 32 Emmys, 15 George Foster Peabody Awards, 12 Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Broadcast Journalism Awards, three Academy Awards and the Prix Italia.