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Hot Docs 2014: Bronx Obama – Documentary Review
Director: Ryan Murdock
Country: USA
Rating: G
Runtime: 91 min
It is not often that a film director strikes gold with his or her first feature film. Many directors require a few trials before they become fully accustomed to the art of moviemaking, and this truth extends to the creation of nonfiction documentaries as well. Ryan Murdock is therefore a director to be celebrated, as is his new documentary Bronx Obama, which premiered at Hot Docs 2014. This piece is an achievement in tone, finding the perfect balance between thought-provoking and entertaining film. Many people around the world have heard of Barack Obama, but few are familiar with the name Louis Ortiz, also known as the “Bronx Obama.” Murdock introduces his audience to this individual in a manner both sensitive and intimate, and few will come away able to quickly forget his story.
Louis Ortiz was an average man struggling with unemployment in the Bronx until Barack Obama began making headlines. Once Ortiz realized that he bore an uncanny resemblance to the man running for president of the United States – and that he could make money due to it – he began his career as a political impersonator. Ortiz started dressing, talking, and acting like Obama, m
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Inside the Obama campaign - an interview with David Axelrod
David Muir: There were a lot of people running round Washington with their hair on fire after the results of the mid-terms in 2010. Did you start to have some doubts at that point?
David Axelrod: If I reacted every time people in Washington were running around with their hair on fire I'd have jumped off a tall building by now. One of the things about working for Obama all of these years is that we've been written out of the script so many times, you get used to it. My reaction to the mid-terms was firstly, yes it was a disaster. But I told the president that the seeds of his re-election may actually have been planted that day; the Republicans might have had a great night but the winners in the party were really the most strident Republican voices - the Tea Party and the social conservatives. The party was tugged far to the right on that night, and whoever would emerge as the Republican nominee would have to pass through that toll-booth in order to get to the nomination. I knew that toll was going to be very costly. So, although I thought it was a disaster from a governance sense, it was an opportunity from a political sense, and that bore out in the run up to the 2012 election.
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