institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2012] >> this week on q&a, film maker matthew hineman discusses his documentary, escape fire. currently available in select theaters, i tunes and video on demand. >> one of the things on your biosheet that i noticed is that you developed a multimedia undertaking called the young americans project in the last few years. what was it? >> the film project called our time. i actually studied history in college. i actually wanted to be a teacher and i got rejected from teach america and sort of was sitting around with my college friends trying to decide what to do and we hatched up this plan to drive across the country interviewing kids from all walks of life. we got sponsorship money, got an rv and ended up driving around the country. and that was my first film. i learned a ton about film making and life and fell in love with the process. we had a blog, shot a film, tried to write a book. nothing came out of the book. but from that film it led me to a job at hbo. and sort of started me down this crazy path of making documentary films. >> one