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Bronx Obama

Year
2014
Country
USA
Duration
91’
Director
Ryan Murdock

What if one day you looked in the mirror and saw the most powerful man in the world staring back at you? When Louis Ortiz shaved off his goatee one day in 2008, his life changed forever. He looked in the mirror and he didn’t see himself – a middle-aged, unemployed Puerto Rican father from the Bronx. He saw the face of change, of hope… of money.

Production
Saving Daylight Productions, +2129958139, [email protected], Anyah Dover
Sales:
Cargo Film & Releasing, +2129958139, [email protected], www.cargofilm-releasing.com, David Piperni
Director
Ryan Murdock

Ryan Murdock is an independent filmmaker and the creative director of his company, Saving Daylight Productions, which creates documentary media for clients and develops original editorial projects. His recent work has been featured on the BBC, the New York Times, MSNBC, the Huffington Post, and Gawker, among others. Bronx Obama is Ryan’s first feature length documentary. He adapted his story for an episode of This American Life and as a short for the New York Times.

Selected Filmography

Bronx Obama (2014)

Red Hall
Cinema House
vul. Saksahanskoho, 6
Big Hall
Kinopanorama
vul. Shota Rustaveli, 19
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Propaganda
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Propaganda
Year
2014
Country
Chile
Directors
Christopher Murray, MAFI Collective
Duration
62’
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Together
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Together
Year
2014
Country
Russia
Director
Denis Shabaev
Duration
52’’
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All Things Ablaze
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All Things Ablaze
Year
2014
Country
Ukraine
Director
Oleksandr Techynskyi, Aleksey Solodunov, Dmitry Stoykov
Duration
82’
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Cloudy Times
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Cloudy Times
Year
2014
Country
Switzerland, Paraguay
Director
Arami Ullón
Duration
92’
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Deep Love
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Deep Love
Year
2013
Country
Poland
Director
Jan P. Matuszyński
Duration
84’ ’
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Pine Ridge
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Pine Ridge
Year
2013
Country
Denmark
Director
Anna Eborn
Duration
76’ ’
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Cain’s Children
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Cain’s Children
Year
2014
Country
Hungary, France
Director
Marcell Gerő
Duration
104’’
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Happily Ever After
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Happily Ever After
Year
2014
Country
Croatia, the Netherlands
Director
Tatjana Božić
Duration
83’’
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The Kangaroo Complex
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The Kangaroo Complex
Year
2014
Country
Belgium
Director
Sarah Moon Howe
Duration
58’’
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