A Documentary Film by Two-Time Academy Award Nominated
Filmmaker, Marshall Curry
Filmmaker, Marshall Curry
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Winner of the Best Documentary Award at the Tribeca Film Festival
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Director: Marshall Curry
Runtime: 83 minutes Rating: NR Production Year: 2014 Language: English DVDCat#: PRDVD2894 Public Performance Rights Licensing: Starting at $299 Organizations & Institutions please contact info@passionriver.com for a quote GENRE: Documentary, War, Politics, Middle Eastern Studies, Government, Violence
SYNOPSIS: 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 multi-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 search for political revolution and personal transformation. |