Introducing 'Bronx Obama,' Mr. Louis Ortiz - BlackandBrownNews.com (BBN)

Published On: Tue, Oct 16th, 2012

Politics | By BBN Staff

Introducing ‘Bronx Obama,’ Mr. Louis Ortiz

(YouTube) In this short documentary we meet Louis Ortiz, “Bronx Obama,” an unemployed man from from the Bronx, New York whose life is turned upside down when he discovers his uncanny resemblance to President Obama.

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Ryan Murdock is a filmmaker who has produced for PBS’s show “Nova” and recorded more than 300 oral histories for NPR’s StoryCorps. This video is adapted from his forthcoming documentary “The Audacity of Louis Ortiz” and a recent episode of “This American Life.”

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